The second Mars test pushes China into increasing its investment – The PRNews Portal

The first attempt of China to arrive at the Red Planet was not successful. China’s Yinghuo-1 Orbiter strapped beneath the Fobos-Grunt nine years ago. Fobos-Grunt is a Russian spaceship developed to obtain specimens from the bigger two moons of the Red Planet. The satellites were launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on top of a Ukrainian Zenit rocket. 
Contact was renounced when there was a progression of engine burns intended to sense the rockets towards the Red Planet. Following the…

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