2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent
Phobos-Grunt
Failed to leave Earth orbit; included the Yinghuo-1 payload.
Era 4 of 6 · full record in the catalog
- Launch
- 8 Nov 2011
- Lead / partner
- Russia
- Target
- Phobos
- Category
- Mars-moon sample return
- Status
- Failure
- Vehicle
- Zenit-2SB41
- Mass
- unknown
- Orbit / trajectory
- Geocentric orbit
- Duration
- 3 years (planned) Failed in Earth orbit
Why it happened
Phobos-Grunt flew during 2001–2012: Planetary Exploration Becomes Persistent, as part of Russia's work toward phobos. A sourced write-up of the context around this mission is still on the editorial queue; nothing here is invented to fill the gap.
The mission
The full narrative of this mission is pending research and writing. What is recorded so far: Failed to leave Earth orbit; included the Yinghuo-1 payload.
Results
Failed to leave Earth orbit; included the Yinghuo-1 payload.
Related missions
Sources & image credits
- MKonair, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0 · license: cc-by-sa-2.0 (source, checked 2026-08-23)
- Mission record: AntarikshPedia canonical dataset (data-sources/missions_timeline.md)
- Specifications reference: NASA NSSDCA Master Catalog
