Russia Has Until December To Salvage Mars Mission

PARIS — Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft remains stranded in low Earth orbit, and if engineers are unable to salvage the Mars-bound mission by December, the robotic probe is expected to burn up on re-entry and pose no danger to Earth, the head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said Nov. 14....

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