Fobos-Grunt
Sign in to saveFobos-Grunt or Phobos-Grunt () was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Fobos-Grunt also carried the Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 and the tiny Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment funded by the Planetary Society.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- Fobos-Grunt
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Phobos-GruntФобос-Грунт
- Spaceflight.image
- Model of Phobos-Grunt spacecraft without labels.jpg
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Phobos landerSample return
- Spaceflight.operator
- Roscosmos
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2011-065A
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 37872
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 3 years (planned)Failed in Earth orbit
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Lavochkin, Russian Space Research Institute
- Spaceflight.power
- 1 kW (main orbiter/lander) + 300 W (Earth return vehicle)
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 8 November 2011, 20:16:02 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- Zenit-2SB41
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Site 45/1
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Yuzhmash
- Spaceflight.entered_service
- Failed on orbit
- Spaceflight.last_contact
- 24 November 2011
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- 15 January 2012, 17:46 UTC
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
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Article
25 sectionsContents
- Project history
- Budget
- Development
- Partners
- Postponed 2009 launch
- 2011 launch
- Post-launch
- Contact
- Re-entry
- Aftermath
- Repeat mission
- Objectives
- Payload
- Mass summary
- Mission plan
- Journey
- On Phobos
- Sample return to Earth
- Summary of intended mission phases
- Ground control
- Scientific critiques
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Fobos-Grunt or Phobos-Grunt () was an attempted Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. Fobos-Grunt also carried the Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 and the tiny Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment funded by the Planetary Society.
It was launched on 8 November 2011, at 20:16 UTC, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, but subsequent rocket burns intended to set the craft on a course for Mars failed, leaving it stranded in low Earth orbit. Efforts to reactivate the craft were unsuccessful, and it fell back to Earth in an uncontrolled re-entry on 15 January 2012, over the Pacific Ocean, west of Chile. The return vehicle was to have returned to Earth in August 2014, carrying up to of soil from Phobos.