Russian spacecraft is rushing to Earth

According to an AP source, a Russian spaceship containing 12 tons of toxic materials is traveling in the wrong direction, instead of being launched to Mars, it tends to return to Earth.

Phobos - Grunt - (Photos: AP)

This unmanned Russian space ship is called Phobos - $ 170 million Grunt, successfully launched into orbit by Zenit-2 rocket this morning 10-11 (US time) from the aerospace airport in Kazakhstan . But the unexpected incident happened after 11 minutes when the Russian spacecraft began to separate from the rocket.

As expected, the two engines of the ship will operate and bring it to Mars. But both are inactive, making spacecraft unable to fly away from Earth orbit. It only flies 206-339km from Earth.

According to experts, if there is no repair, it could fall to Earth in a few weeks.

Space experts hope that in this time the Russian ship's inactive engines will resume operations to continue their journey to Mars.

In the worst case scenario, the damage is negligible as scientists believe that the materials on the ship will explode outside the space and never fall to the ground. But this is just an initial guess.