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Jan 22 2005, 02:15 PM
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Interplanetary Dumpster Diver Group: Admin Posts: 4404 Joined: 17-February 04 From: Powell, TN Member No.: 33 |
In Astronomy's February issue, they report that Russia has approved funding for the Phobos-Grunt mission. Design work has gone on since 1997, and the new design is scaled down to fly an a Soyuz rocket instead of the larger Proton. The main purpose is similar to Phobos-2, with the addition of a sample return. Also being discussed is the possibility of it carrying a few "meteorological stations" fof Mars itself. Generally, I have written this mission off as "never going to happen," but with the new Russian alliance with ESA, I wonder if they might be able to actually fly this thing. Also, with Putin's increasingly Soviet-style leadership, and with the likelyhood of lunar missions from China and India, Russian pride might drive this mission. If so, I have a concern. This mission sounds really, really ambitious. And the Russians have never even sent a fully successful Mars orbiter, and that is when they launched them in pairs or triplets. Still, if the mission flies, even if it doesn't bring back Phobos soil it might obtain some interesting results. Here is ESA's Phobos-Grunt page:
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Permanent_...IJFW4QWD_0.html Also, ESA has another page on potential Russian programs, although this seem to be nothing but pipe dreams at the moment. Would be a cool mission though. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Permanent_...0LFW4QWD_0.html And also a page on the only partially realized current Russian project, its program to put instruments on other's spacecraft, such as HEND on Odyssey. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/ESA_Permanent_...HMFW4QWD_0.html -------------------- |
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Nov 9 2011, 02:48 AM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 50 Joined: 14-January 07 From: France Member No.: 1602 |
I don't know if this has been posted yet here, nbut there it goes. Admins, feel free to delete if already posted
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Kazakhstan), November 9 - RIA Novosti. In deriving the Russian interplanetary station "Phobos-Grunt" on the flight path to Mars has developed emergency situations. Marching propulsion (MRL) has not worked, there was not one of the two inclusions, told reporters Wednesday at Baikonur Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin. The station "Phobos-Grunt" was launched on Wednesday at 0:16 GMT, from Baikonur. After separating the station from the launch vehicle "Zenit-2SB" should have happened two stations including MRLs, after which she was supposed to otletnuyu orbit to Mars. "We've had a bad night, we could not detect long spacecraft, now found his position. It was found that the propulsion system failed. There was neither the first nor the second inclusion," - said Popovkin.According to him, it is possible that the spacecraft "could not shift from the Sun to the stars." "The track complex, could it be that has not been given the command to activate the sensors, propulsion system," - said Popovkin. He stressed that this is a freelance situation, but it's working, it was foreseen in the design of the project, and was envisaged course of action in this situation. "We will surcharge program spacecraft. The orbit on which the unit - support, no tanks are not dumped, no fuel was spent," - said the head of the Russian Space Agency. He added that the time to restart the program from the experts there for three days. "During the day we will definitely inform all of the future situation," - said Popovkin. MRLs are made on the basis of the upper stage "Fregat", but greatly upgraded. This launch was Russia's first attempt in 15 years to carry out an interplanetary research mission. The station "Phobos-Grunt" to explore the satellite of Mars - Phobos - the first time in history to deliver soil samples to Earth from the satellite. Previous attempts by Russian scientists to send an interplanetary probe was launched in November 1996, when he was running the machine, "Mars-96", for the exploration of Mars. In addition to studies of the planet from orbit, he had landed on the martian surface landers and probes Penetrators. Because of the failure booster station did not come to the right orbit and fell into the ocean. However, many design made for her, were used for European vehicles "Mars Express" and "Venus Express". |
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