Phobos fail: What really happened to Russia’s Mars probe?

January 19, 2012 10:19

From US radar influence to manufacturing mistakes: Russian space authorities are considering various reasons why the Phobos-Grunt mars probe failed to leave Earth’s orbit after launching last November.

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SuperiorEuropean (unregistered) 09.12.2012 15:48

"Never attribute to malice what might instead be only incompetence"... unless, of course, 'amercians' are involved in the human equation, in which case one can always trace the problem back to an 'amercian' and their inherent hostility.

Fo r more details see "collateralized debt", global climate change, CFCs, lead in gasoline, flouridation of public water supplies, 1929, Wall Street's funding of the tiny and insignificant national socialists in Germany in 1936 and the Japanese trade embargos of the 1930s by the ussa.... or take a look at Kosovo, Somali, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan, every ship-related incident that precipitated a war for the ussa and most 'amercian' foreign policy since 1800!
Do the research and as fast as one can type 'Banana Wars', you've acquired 'a clue'!

Have fun doing something unusual... like 'reading', usa!

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hapfard (unregistered) 04.12.2012 07:07

lol....Russia, just build a better probe next time.  we'll even sell you one of ours.  although, ours don't exactly have 100% luck either :D.  be real people, when you launch something between planets, things can go wrong.  they might go wrong on launch, in orbit of earth, en-route, in orbit of mars, on landing, after landing, etc.  this is rocket science, not legos, no need for a conspiracy in every failure because there have been a lot of failures of both US and Russian probes aimed at mars. 

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MengWan 06.09.2012 09:30

What about building a space control station in Venezuela, or Ecuador ?

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alex (unregistered) 07.08.2012 14:57

creatorr69 wrote in #3
here we go again, russian is always blamed on american.  in other word you're suck. russian is spying copying, hacking, and sneaking and stealing american's technology and financial........... russian cant be trust.  the putin was cheating on election vote last year.


well actually it's the americans who cheat steal and copy .. imho ... if you knew how many russian military secrets have been bought by the americans before putin came 

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pepe (unregistered) 21.01.2012 15:26

If it is proved that the US gov't is sabotaging the Russian space program, which is plausible based upon the established character of the US gov't and it's leaders (i.e., greedy zionists and their puppets), then what?  What ultimatum can be issued short of turning the guns on Israel? 

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Nay Lin Maung 19.01.2012 18:28

God causes it.   or   Human causes it. If human causes, the leadership of the Russia Federation has to investigate it.    

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CyriltheSquirrel 19.01.2012 17:19

Could the downing of Phobos-Grunt have anything to do with the 'teletubbies mystery head that fell on Namibia' story currently playing on RT...   Anyway, I expect that when PG2 is being launched there will have been strenuous attempts at hardening it against all EM interference, an encrypted back-up channel or two and strict monitoring against sabotage... After all, we would not wish anyone's (Uncle Sam's included) finger prints on a fatality in a developing country would we?

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Does anyone actually read these articles 19.01.2012 17:17

"Popovkin also confirmed that investigators are considering a whole range of possible reasons for the failure, the most likely of which are thought to be engineering and design errors."

I'd also like to point out a double negative in the seventh paragraph. Unless the US really has said they were involved.

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creatorr69 19.01.2012 16:55

here we go again, russian is always blamed on american.  in other word you're suck. russian is spying copying, hacking, and sneaking and stealing american's technology and financial........... russian cant be trust.  the putin was cheating on election vote last year.

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Dev 19.01.2012 16:20

I think people should get their fax right and their head tested before they started making comments that the U.S military shoot down the Russian Mars Probe. The U.S military do not have the power are weapon nor the will to brought down the Mars Probe. plus it was a joint project between the U.S and Russia. both the Russian and the U.S government& nbsp;still trying to come to terms with what had gone wrong why the Mars Probe went down.  

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Vlada (unregistered) 19.01.2012 13:37

It was a nice star wars exercise by US military shooting down the helpless Mars moon probe from the low Earth orbit, no doubts about that. Americans have got a useful experience as to how to deal with some long range Russian Ballistic Missiles.

I hope Russia will respond in an adequate way!

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