[meteorite-list] ESA Suspends Tracking Support to Phobos-Grunt

[Ron Baalke]

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMNEO2XFVG_2.html

ESA suspends tracking support to Russian Mars mission
European Space Agency
2 December 2011

In consultation and agreement with Phobos-Grunt mission managers, ESA
engineers will end tracking support today. Efforts in the past week to send
commands to and receive data from the Russian Mars mission via ESA ground
stations have not succeeded; no response has been seen from the satellite.
ESA teams remain available to assist the Phobos-Grunt mission if indicated
by any change in the situation.