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Old 11-11-11, 08:46 PM   #11
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One can summarize the news about the last few day's efforts to save Phobos-Grunt in three words: there is none. At least nothing official.

The fact is that neither ESA nor Russia has reported any contact with the spacecraft despite all their efforts. And without any contact with the spacecraft, or official statements from Roscosmos, it's impossible to know whether it's alive or dead, salvageable or about to become another (unusually dangerous) man-made object falling out of the sky at an unknown future time and place. It looks grim for the mission at this point.
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