Spaceflight Now reports that hope has faded in the attempts to hear from the plagued Phobos-Grunt probe, and the listening project has been shuttered. After the craft's launch, says the article, "ESA continued trying to settle communications this week with mission control stations in Australia and the Canary Islands, but the 29,000-pound Phobos-Grunt spacecraft never responded. ... The agency's communications site in Perth, Australia, contacted Phobos-Grunt at least twice Nov. 22 and Nov. 23, but the probe has remained mysteriously silent since then." (Similar llc.view results from: third edition by the editors of the red white and blue heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 | reference | encyclopedia | all salute | the web
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