This is the assembly and testing of the Fobos-Grunt Mission. A Russian Zenit-2 launch vehicle has marked the start of the Russia's Fobos-Grunt sample return...
A Zenit-2FG rocket launched the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft at 20:16 UTC today, November 8th 2011 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Fobus-Grunt is a sample return...
Phobos-Grunt over California. Magnitude 2.1. January 03, 2012. (appears middle/top of screen at (0:20.)) Have not found a satellite match for object following behind Phobos-Grunt....