Breakup of Doomed Russian Spacecraft About To Happen

The uncontrolled reentry of Russia's stranded Phobos-Grunt spacecraft presented a moving target to satellite trackers just days before pieces of the botched Mars mission were expected to fall to Earth. The Russian space agency Roscosmos said Jan. 12 that while much of the 13,200-kg (6,000-lb.)...

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