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From: leech@Apple.COM (Jonathan Patrick Leech)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro
Subject: Re: The Soviet PHOBOS 2 Mars probe.
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Date: 24 Jul 89 20:06:40 GMT
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In article <8907241926.AA08447@decwrl.dec.com> klaes@wrksys.dec.com (CUP/ASG, MLO5-2/G1 6A, 223-3283) writes:
>	The most likely explanation for the failure of PHOBOS 2 a few
>    months back was a technical problem - the Soviets are roughly ten
>    years behind the United States in space technology.

    More like twenty years - they have Energia.
--
    Jon Leech (leech@apple.com)
    Apple Integrated Systems
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