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The failure left the 30,000-pound, $170 million probe, called Phobos-Grunt - "grunt" being the Russian word for ground - stuck in an egg-shaped orbit that at its lowest point is just 129 miles above the Earth.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011
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The failure left the 30,000-pound, $170 million probe, called Phobos-Grunt - "grunt" being the Russian word for ground - stuck in an egg-shaped orbit that at its lowest point is just 129 miles above the Earth.
NYT > Global Home By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011
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The failure left the 30,000-pound, $170 million probe, called Phobos-Grunt - "grunt" being the Russian word for ground - stuck in an egg-shaped orbit that at its lowest point is just 129 miles above the Earth.
NYT > Home Page By HENRY FOUNTAIN 2011
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The red ellipsis marks the previously planned landing site for Phobos-Grunt, the blue ellipsis marks the landing site currently under consideration.
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It remains to be seen whether the second Mars mission, Russia's Phobos-Grunt probe, will blast off as early as November.
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The Phobos-Grunt probe that failed on 8 November shortly after launch would have been its first mission beyond Earth's orbit in more than 20 years.
Soyuz crew bound for International Space Station after successful launch 2011
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The Phobos-Grunt Phobos-Soil craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m.
Russian Probe Launched To Phobos, Mars' Moon, Fails The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Phobos-Grunt is hugely ambitious with its plan to land on the Martian moon Phobos, collect samples and return them to Earth after a 34-month round trip.
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The Phobos-Grunt Phobos-Soil craft was successfully launched by a Zenit-2 booster rocket at 12:16 a.m.
Russian Probe Launched To Phobos, Mars' Moon, Fails The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Russia's Phobos-Grunt Mars spacecraft remains stranded in Earth orbit.
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