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Mission
State: Spacecraft failure
Place: Mars
Operator: IKI
Date
Start:
Mission Ending
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending." - Jim Henson
Rocket
Rocket: Proton-K 8K82K/D-1
Kind: IKI
Mass: 6,220 kg (13,710 lb)
Launch Site: Baikonur Site 200/40
Flyby
"Requesting permission for flyby." Maverick - Top Gun
Orbit
Reference System: Areocentric
Lander
"The journey, not the arrival, matters; the voyage, not the landing." - Paul Theroux
Phobos 1 was an unmanned Russian space probe of the Phobos Program launched from the Baikonour launch facility on 7 July 1988. Its intended mission was to explore Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission failed on 2 September 1988 when a computer malfunction caused the end-of-mission order to be transmitted to the spacecraft. At the time of launch it was the heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched, weighing 6200 kg.
