This is similar to what happened with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt probe in 2011, which fell into the Pacific Ocean. Originally, Kosmos 482 was launched just four days after its twin probe, Venera 8, which ...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery reentry to Earth.

The Ryzen 9 9950X with its 16 cores and 32 threads still has plenty of multi-threaded grunt, but Intel offers more. The drawback of Intel’s approach is that not all of those threads are created ...

The Russian Space Agency attempted a sample return mission to Phobos in 2011 named Fobos-Grunt, but after safely reaching Earth orbit, the spacecraft failed to initiate the burn necessary to fly ...

The Phobos Grunt interplanetary station is made up of new elements at over 90%, Federal Space Agency head Vladimir Popovkin told the State Duma in early October. Deputies asked whether it was too ...

In 2011, the Russians played roulette with this cold reality, installing a cheaper, faster chip more comparable to modern hardware on their Phobos-Grunt spacecraft. The craft was supposed to land on ...

Phobos-Grunt, perhaps the most ambitious deep space mission ever attempted by Russia, crashed down into the ocean at the beginning of 2012. The spacecraft was supposed to land on the battered ...

Then last year, Russia's Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft crashed into the Pacific before ever leaving earth orbit. Pavone says his team is trying to develop technology to send to Phobos that ...

They show the proposed landing sites for the forthcoming Phobos-Grunt mission. Images from the recent flyby of Phobos, on 7 March 2010, are released today. The images show Mars’ rocky moon in ...

MOSCOW, April 17 (UPI) -- Russia says it will mount another attempt at a Mars mission similar to the Phobos-Grunt probe that failed to head toward the Red Planet in November. The Roscosmos Space ...

Phobos-Grunt, the Russian satellite, fell from the skies as we know. Fortunately I wasn't blamed for this particular disaster. It might even be true that my not being involved is what led to the ...