31.01.2012 - 20:26 [ Russian Space Web ]

Information on Phobos-Grunt failure emerges

During the third orbit, no data had been received about the ignition of the Main Propulsion Unit, MDU, and all following operations of the pre-programmed flight sequence and the activation of the radio-transmitters. The most probably cause of this failure was a simultaneous rebooting of two operational processors in the main computer Central Calculation Machine, TsVM-22.