The Phobos II Incident, January 1989 - UFO Casebook
The Phobos program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. Phobos 2 became a Mars orbiter and returned 38 images with a resolution of …
Phobos program - Wikipedia
The Phobos program (Russian: Фобос, Fobos) was an uncrewed space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its …
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NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
- Launch Date: 1988-07-12 Launch Vehicle: Proton-K Launch Site: Tyuratam (Baikonur Cosmodrome), U.S.S.R Mass:2600 kg
The Phobos 2 Mission to Mars - NASA
The Phobos 2 mission was launched on 12 July 1988 from Baykonur Cosmodrome. The primary objective of the mission, as with its sister probe Phobos 1, was to explore the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.
The Mystery of Phobos 2: What Happened to the …
Jun 30, 2023 · Phobos 2 operated nominally throughout its cruise and Mars orbital insertion phases on January 29, 1989, gathering data on the Sun, the interplanetary medium, Mars, and Phobos. Phobos 2 investigated Mars’s …
Is the cause of the Phobos-2 probe failure definitively …
In 1987 the ambitious Soviet probe Phobos (Fobos)-2 made it to Martian orbit and started transmitting data. The Planetary Society Phobos-2 page shows all 38 images received over a period of about a month. On March 27 the probe …
Phobos 1, 2 Quicklook
Phobos 1, 2. Phobos was a Soviet mission to Mars consisting of 2 nearly identical spacecraft. The mission included cooperation from 14 other nations including Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, …
Re-examining the Lost Mars Probes of 1989-1993 - Keys of Enoch
But in March of 1989 the Russian spacecraft Phobos II, programmed for intensive studies of the geology of the red planet, disappeared from the Russian tracking system as it was performing …
In Depth | Fobos 2 – NASA Solar System Exploration
Feb 21, 2019 · Goals: Fobos 1 and 2 were part of an ambitious Russian plan to explore Mars and its moon Phobos. Each spacecraft comprised an orbiter for long term studies of the planet and a lander to study geological and climatic …