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Parts of Doomed Russian Mars Probe to Hit Earth in January |
Current re-entry forecasts have the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft falling Jan. 14 or 15, plus or minus five days, according to space junk expert Heiner Klinkrad.
Russia’s marooned Mars probe Phobos-Grunt, currently stuck in orbit, is headed for a mid-January plunge into Earth’s atmosphere, and more than two dozen pieces of the huge spacecraft could survive the fall, scientists say.
“They assume that about 20 to 30 fragments will reach ground with an overall mass of less than 200 kilograms” ? some 400 pounds of leftover hardware, he said. continue reading
Klinkrad, head of the space debris office at the European Space Agency’s space operations center in Darmstadt, Germany, said Russian scientists are hard at work assessing the re-entry survivability of Phobos-Grunt, a spacecraft that tips the scale at nearly 14 tons.
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