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From: kevin@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Transmitter failure on Phobos II
Message-ID: <9265@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 25 Jan 89 18:00:10 GMT
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Reply-To: kevin@cit-vax.UUCP (Kevin S. Van Horn)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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>     The USSR's Phobos II probe to Mars has suffered a "major hardware 
>problem" with its communications, according to both Defense Daily and Soviet 
>Areospace (Jan. 9th).  [...]

Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I can't help but wonder if Phobos I and Phobos II
are in fact doing fine and the Soviets are only claiming failures so that they
don't have to share the information from them with anyone.  Does anyone have
any information that would either support or discredit this idea?

Kevin S. Van Horn