
On January 31, the Russian space agency Roscosmos announced the impact of cosmic radioactivity as the cause of the automatic interplanetary Station.

Russian scientists reported that the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft's debris had fallen into the Pacific on Sunday 15 October after failing to complete the mission to explore Mars.

The Russian probe Phobos-Grunt, trapped in Earth orbit, will fall to southwestern Afghanistan on January 14, 2012, according to the US Strategic Command's forecast.

A source from the Russian space industry said there was little chance of saving the unmanned Russian spacecraft Phobos-Grunt launched on Mars.

The European Aeronautics Agency (ESA) has decided to stop contacting Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft.