Busted Phobos-Grunt in harmless splashdown
Failed probe plops into Pacific
Failed Russian-built space probe Phobos-Grunt is now lying under the Pacific Ocean west of South America, according to Russia’s Air and Space Defence Force.
The mission never made it out of orbit after a rushed launch left it in a decaying near-Earth orbit, amid dark hints of sabotage.
Now, the Associated Press reports that its splashdown is more than 1,200 km west of Wellington Island in Chile.
Colonel Alexei Zolotukhin told the press agency the deserted southern Pacific, where the uncontrolled Phobos-Grunt splashdown took place, is also “where Russia guides its discarded space cargo ships serving the International Space Station”.
Fragments of the ambitious mission to Mars’ Phobos moon are unlikely to pose any danger, given that its fuel is expected to have burned during its crash, and due to the remoteness of the splashdown site. ®
COMMENTS
You want a conspiracy theory?
Here it is, the Russians have only been PRETENDING to try to send probes to Mars.
They've really been bombing the fish, found in different places in the Pacific.
And they'll get them all too, one fish at a time...
"...Russia's and all the Eastern Europeans countries signs flip over to display USSR again."
Which, as a gag, says a hell of a lot more about US knowledge of Central / Eastern European geography and politics than it does about Russian power......
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