MOSCOW ? Russian officials have acknowledged that chances to fix a space probe bound for a moon of Mars that got stuck in Earth's orbit are close to zero.
Roscosmos deputy chief Vitaly Davydov said in remarks carried by Russian news agencies Tuesday that the mission to Mars' moon will have failed if space officials still don't establish contact with the probe till the end of the month.
The Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Ground) was launched two weeks ago and reached preliminary Earth orbit, but its engines never fired to send it off to the Red Planet. Russian engineers have been trying to retrieve data from the probe as it passed over their territory but hasn't established contact.
A satellite tracking website showed the Mars probe steadily passing over North America on Tuesday morning.
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