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The MarsDrive Consortium
China-Russia Mars mission set for takeoff
by Staff Writers Hong Kong (UPI) Jan 5, 2009
The first joint Chinese-Russian mission to Mars is set to take off in October
and reach the
red planet in August 2010, an exploration project designer said.
A Russian Zenit rocket will launch a Chinese Yinghuo-1 satellite and a Russian
Phobos-
Grunt unmanned lander, Chen Changya, chief designer of the China-Russia Mars
exploration project, told Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po newspaper.
Phobos-Grunt is expected to study Mars from orbit, including its atmosphere and
dust
storms, plasma and radiation, before landing on Phobos, one of Mars' two small
moons.
Yinghuo-1, which means Firefly-1, will explore the Martian environment and carry
out
research into how surface water on the planet disappeared, Chen said.
Twelfth International Mars Society Convention
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