ESA Ends Support For Stranded Russian Mars Probe

PARIS — After more than a week of unsuccessful attempts to communicate with Russia’s Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, the European Space Agency (ESA) has ceased relaying orbit-raising commands to the unmanned Mars probe stranded in low Earth orbit since its Nov. 8 launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in...

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