In a recent Daily Galaxy blog article details the last few moments of the failed Russian Mars Phobos probe and its' projected impact in the Indian Ocean sometime between January 14 and January 16th.
The probe, which was launched on Nov. 9, was to explore one of Mars’ two moons, Phobos, but became stranded after its launch, still in Earth orbit, after it failed to respond to engineers in Russia and the European Space Agency, never igniting the stage that was to propel the spacecraft toward its target.
Phobos-Grunt weighs 14.6 tons, which includes 12 tons of highly toxic fuel, all of which is projected to burn up before impacting the ocean.
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