Phobos-Grunt Mars probe loses its way just after launch

[jakeXT]

Source: BBC

9 November 2011 Last updated at 07:48 GMT

Russian probe launch to Mars The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, if salvaged, would reach Mars in September 2012

Russian engineers are fighting to save the country's latest mission to Mars.

The Phobos-Grunt probe launched successfully but then failed to fire the engine to put it on the correct path to the Red Planet.

Russian space agency officials say the craft is currently stuck in an Earth orbit and that engineers have three days to correct the fault before the probe's batteries run out.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15631472

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Let's hope they can fix it

Who wouldn't want to make this guy the first animal to make it outside Earth's gravity field, onto another body, and back again?



Dammit, that's what things from Mars are meant to look like!