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Posted by timothy on Saturday June 06, 2009 @07:01PM
from the kazakhstan-facility-of-space-object-tossing-very-nice dept.

henrypijames writes "At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."

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Re:Sounds fine to me (Score:5, Informative)

by ethogram (1094021) writes: on Saturday June 06, 2009 @07:41PM (#28237433)

I believe Grunt is Russian for Ground and will be a sample return mission from Phobos. The Planetary Society is flying something as well: a long term biological exposure project called Life. I think the idea is to see whether cells can survive long term exposure to the radiation environment of interplanetary space (as opposed to low earth orbit).

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Re:Should we let them launch? (Score:0, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 06, 2009 @08:47PM (#28237869)

Troll? Obviously North Korea related sarcasm..

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Re:How delicious... (Score:0, Informative)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Saturday June 06, 2009 @10:38PM (#28238515)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate

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