Russia Builds Mars Probe

Posted by tourdemars to Sample Return at August 23, 2002 12:00 PM

Russian space engineers have begun the construction of a space probe which will be sent to Phobos, one of the Moons surrounding the Planet Mars, in 2007. The engineers, working for the specialist company Lavotchkin, have finished the building of a model in Kaluga, south of Moscow, for a probe which will be sent to Phobos.