Fobos-Grunt

Fobos-Grunt
	A model of Fobos-Grunt presented during CeBIT 2011
Mission type	Phobos lander; Sample return
Operator	Roskosmos
COSPAR ID	2011-065A
SATCAT no.	37872
Mission duration	Planned: 3 years ; Final: failed at launch
Spacecraft properties
Manufacturer	Lavochkin, Russian Space Research Institute
Launch mass	13,505 kg (29,773 lb) with fuel
Dry mass	2,300 kg (5,100 lb)
Power	1000 W (main orbiter/lander) + 300 W (Earth return vehicle)
Start of mission
Launch date	8 November 2011, 20:16 UTC
Rocket	Zenit-2SB
Launch site	Baikonur 45/1
End of mission
Decay date	15 January 2012
Orbital parameters
Reference system	Geocentric
Regime	Low Earth
Perigee	112 kilometres (70 mi)
Apogee	125 kilometres (78 mi)
Inclination	51.4°
Epoch	15 January 2012

Fobos-Grunt^[2] (also spelled Phobos-Grunt, also called Phobos Sample Return Mission^[3]) was an unmanned Russian spacecraft. It was an attempted sample return mission to Phobos, a moon of the planet Mars.^[3]^[4]^[5] 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^[4]^[5] soil sample to Earth.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The spacecraft was the first Russian interplanetary mission since Mars 96.^[5] It was launched on 8 November 2011 (UTC), aboard a Zenit rocket, at Baikonur Cosmodrome.^[3] It was sent with the Chinese spacecraft Yinghuo-1^[3]^[5] and with the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment.^[3]

The name Phobos-Grunt (Russian: Фобос-Грунт) is Russian for Phobos-Soil.^[5]

References

↑ "Конструкция АМС "Фобос-Грунт"".
↑ "Russian spacecraft for Fobos-Grunt program to be controlled from Yevpatoria". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 "Timeline for the Phobos Sample Return Mission (Phobos Grunt)". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "Phobos-Grunt: destination Mars in 2011". CNES. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
↑ ^5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 "Phobos-Grunt". NASA. Archived from the original on 2011-11-10. Retrieved 2011-05-09.
↑ "Phobos-Grunt". ESA. Retrieved 2011-05-09.

Other websites

Information

"Phobos-Grunt Profile". NASA. Archived from the original on 2011-11-10. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
"Phobos-Grunt Profile". ESA. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
"Phobos-Grunt Profile". CNES. Retrieved 2011-09-05.

Images

A picture of Phobos-Grunt Archived 2012-02-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
Phobos-Grunt diagram^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 2011-09-05.
A model of Phobos-Grunt^{[permanent dead link]}. Retrieved 2011-09-05.

[galspace.spb.ru-1] "Конструкция АМС "Фобос-Грунт"".

[2] "Russian spacecraft for Fobos-Grunt program to be controlled from Yevpatoria". Kyiv Post. Retrieved 2011-09-05.

[ref1-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 "Timeline for the Phobos Sample Return Mission (Phobos Grunt)". The Planetary Society. Archived from the original on 2010-11-28. Retrieved 2011-09-05.

[cnes-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 "Phobos-Grunt: destination Mars in 2011". CNES. Retrieved 2011-09-05.

[nasa1-5] 5.0 ^5.1 ^5.2 ^5.3 ^5.4 ^5.5 "Phobos-Grunt". NASA. Archived from the original on 2011-11-10. Retrieved 2011-05-09.

[esa-6] "Phobos-Grunt". ESA. Retrieved 2011-05-09.

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