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Hourly News updated 14:00 2011/11/09

Russian Mars probe fails to reach intended orbit A Russian Mars probe launched early Wednesday has failed to reach its intended orbit. The abnormality occurred after the Phobos-Grunt probe separated from the Zenit-2SB launch vehicle, which blasted of