July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... stage was already planned by the Russian space agency based on the propulsion system of the space probes Phobos and Mars 96. However, these plans had been postponed due to a lack of financing. The creation of Starsem accelerated...
August 2017
Big science from small spacecraft
... a drag skirt to place a 12U cubesat (a U is a measure of volume of about 1 litre) in an orbit at Mars that provides close-up encounters of Phobos and Deimos. The origin of the martian moons is unknown and they are therefore ripe for scientific...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... robotic exploration of planets, including a Venusian atmospheric glider, a floating habitat design for Venus and transit basecamp on Phobos to further human exploration missions.
28 September 2016
Yorkshire mines to help shed light on life on Mars
... that the spectrometer will find itself on other missions that are currently considered for destinations such as Phobos and Europa.
22 July 2020
China's first Mars rover set to launch tomorrow
... the unsuccessful Yinghuo 1 Mars-exploration spacecraft. Yinghuo-1 was left stranded in Earth orbit after the Russian Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft it was hitching a ride with, stalled before reaching outer space in November 2011...
23 April 2018
The International Atlas of Mars Exploration, Vols 1 & 2
... to explain this; the set weighs in at about 4.3 kg. The first volume is divided into three parts, with sections on Phobos and Deimos and Mars mission data, but the great majority of the book comprises a “chronological sequence...
