Russia’s Mars Mission May Be In Trouble, Discovery News
“We had a difficult night,” Russian space agency head Vladimir Popovkin told the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, RussianSpaceWeb.com reports. “We could not locate the spacecraft for a very long time. Now we know its coordinates.”
Russian Mars mission halted by glitch in low Earth orbit, SpaceflightNow
“A subsequent story in Novosti late Tuesday night said such a problem could be due to software or hardware issues. If it was a software glitch, the odds of recovery are good, while a hardware anomaly could have more dire consequences for the mission, the report said.”
