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...
Russian Fobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft, which is intended to visit Mars' moon Phobos. The 115-kg (250-lb) Yinghuo-1 probe will orbit Mars for around two years,...