Phobos-Grunt facts for kids
| Phobos-Grunt Фобос-Грунт |
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 A model of Phobos-Grunt's base section |
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| Organization: | Russian Federal Space Agency |
| Mission type: | Orbiter, lander, sample return |
| Flyby of: | Phobos |
| Satellite of: | Mars |
| Launch date: | 8 November 2011 |
| Launch vehicle: | Zenit rocket |
| Launch site: | Baikonur Cosmodrome |
| Mass: | 8120 kg |
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Phobos-Grunt (also spelled Fobos-Grunt, also called Phobos Sample Return Mission) was an unmanned Russian spacecraft. It was an attempted sample return mission to Phobos, a moon of the planet Mars. Scientists intended Phobos-Grunt to orbit and study Mars. It was meant to look at Mars' atmosphere and dust storms, plasma and radiation. Then, Phobos-Grunt should have landed on Phobos and returned a 200 g soil sample to Earth.
The spacecraft was the first Russian interplanetary mission since Mars 96. It was launched on 8 November 2011 (UTC), aboard a Zenit rocket, at Baikonur Cosmodrome. It was sent with the Chinese spacecraft Yinghuo-1 and with the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment.
The name Phobos-Grunt (Russian: Фобос-Грунт) is Russian for Phobos-Soil.
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Image of Phobos. The Fobos-Grunt project began with the feasibility study of a Phobos sample-return mission in 1999.
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