Phobos-Grunt station may be affected by US radar

The reporter in the Russian Federation led the news in the "Merchant" newspaper (Russia) on January 17 to confirm that the Russian phobos-Grunt research station could be affected by US radar so it failed to reach orbit. to fly to Mars.

Based on information from the Russian missile-space industry, the "Merchant" newspaper said that during the first flight hours, the Phobos-Grunt station had randomly entered the US radar impact zone in the Marshall Islands when the radar station This monitors the path of an asteroid, causing the electronic system on the Phobos-Grunt station to stop working, resulting in the engine not working.

However, this is just one of the hypotheses given about the cause of failure of the Phobos-Grunt project worth nearly 5 billion rubles (nearly 160 million USD).

The 13,000kg Phobos-Grunt station, launched into orbit near Earth on November 9, 2011, fell into the Pacific on the evening of January 15th.

Currently Russian experts are studying other causes that prevent Phobos-Grunt station from flying to Mars.