ESA station keeps contact with Russian Mars mission Phobos-Grunt

ESA's 15 m-diameter antenna at Perth, Australia, was again used to contact Russia's Phobos–Grunt spacecraft during the night of 23–24 November, with a total of five communication passes available between 20:19 and 04:08 GMT. Teams working at the Perth station and at ESA's Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany, were delighted to see a...