Monday, January 16, 2012

Fragments of "Phobos-Grunt" fell into the Pacific Ocean!

Fragments of the station "Phobos-Grunt" fell into the Pacific, told RIA Novosti on Sunday, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry troops ASD Col. Alexei Zolotukhin."According to the main center of conditions in space exploration Space Command troops ASD, the point of falling pieces of apparatus" Phobos-Grunt "was held in the Pacific Ocean" - said Zolotukhin.He said that the wreckage of the machine down at 21.45 GMT in an area where flooding occurs spacecraft "Progress".According to the controls, the debris fell in 1250 kilometers to the west of the island of Wellington.According Zolotukhin, at all times until the "Phobos-Grunt" descended from orbit, the means of the Main Intelligence Center Space environment Space Command troops conducted ASD povitkovy change control parameters of the orbit of the spacecraft.Previously, Roskosmos reported that fragments of the station may fall into the Atlantic Ocean."Phobos-Grunt" - the first in 15 years, the Russian automatic interplanetary station, designed to deliver soil samples from the Martian satellite. After starting November 9, 2011 march propulsion plant is not enabled and could not move the unit to the trajectory of flight to Mars.

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