Topic: Europe
Efforts to resume contact with a Russian space mission to Mars stuck in Earth orbit after launch have failed and the probe must be considered lost, Interfax news agency reported Saturday."All attempts to obtain telemetric information from the Phobos-Grunt probe and activate ...
Increasingly gloomy Russian scientists failed in repeated attempts on Thursday to give a vital boost to a pioneering Mars probe that got stuck in a low Earth orbit and now threatens to crash within days.The unmanned Phobos-Grunt spacecraft lost its course to ...
An unmanned Russian spacecraft on a mission to a Mars moon failed Wednesday to find the right course to the red planet, a potentially devastating blow to Moscow's hopes of resuming planetary exploration.The Phobos-Grunt probe blasted off successfully from the Baikonur cosmodrome ...
Russia on Sunday launched its first supply ship destined for the International Space Station since the embarrassing loss of a similar vessel in August raised questions about its space programme.The unmanned Progress spacecraft took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia hopes to end a humiliating two-decade absence from deep space with the launch on Wednesday of an ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from Mars' moon Phobos.Russian scientists have dreamed of probing the Red Planet's ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pale-faced but smiling, the crew of a long-duration isolation study emerged bleary-eyed to daylight and applause Friday after 520 days locked away in windowless, cramped cells to simulate the length of a journey to Mars.The $15 million Mars500 experiment ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a $2.5 billion rover designed to assess that planet's suitability for life, arrived at its Florida launch pad on Thursday in preparation for a planned November 25 liftoff, the U.S. space agency said.The ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The crew of an isolation experiment to simulate a 520-day mission to Mars are in the final countdown before the opening on Friday of the hatch on the windowless cells in which they have been locked away since June ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - An unmanned Russian spacecraft delivered supplies to astronauts in orbit Wednesday after the crash of the previous cargo flight left the three-man crew on the International Space Station with dwindling rations.The loss of the Progress cargo flight on August ...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China launched an unmanned spacecraft on Tuesday ahead of a docking exercise that will be a key test of the rising power's plans to secure a long-term manned foothold in space.A Long March rocket blasted off from northwest China ...
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