Top Five Facts of Biggest Satellite Crashes

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This 14.5-ton Russian spacecraft, which also carried China’s first attempt at a Mars orbiter, was intended to retrieve soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos (‘grunt’ means ‘soil’ in Russian). Unfortunately, it experienced a failure immediately after launching in early November 2011 and became stuck in Earth orbit. It crashed into the Pacific Ocean on 15 January 2012.  more...