As you know, a few days ago I commented on the plans of Russia to send to Mars and bring her back. It seems that 11/11/11 proved to be a bad day for the microscopic passengers of the Phobos-Gruntmission, water bears.
It seems that there have been problems with the engines, and at least the engineers are able to cause a miracle, the structure falls apart in a couple of weeks.
After a successful launch, the ship had used two engines to leave Earth orbit and go to the red planet. These engines were not used. It seems that these problems are due to a problem in the orientation of the spacecraft system, meaning that Phobos-Grunt doesn't even know the location of Mars at the moment. Engineers have a couple of weeks to fix the problem, but as we have said, will be something of extreme difficulty. Should the problem persist, the spacecraft will end up falling on Earth.
Once again we have to worry because a metallic body of large size could fall on our heads, or perhaps our home. To make things worse, within the ship there are many chemicals and substances, which could turn this event into the fallen most toxic satellite in history.
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