It's Alive! Russia's Phobos-Grunt Probe Phones Home - November 23, 2011

"The European Space Agency announced Wednesday (Nov. 23) a ground station in Australia heard signals from Russia's marooned Phobos-Grunt Mars mission, but prospects are fading for the probe to reach the Red Planet as scheduled next year.

A tracking station in Perth succeeded in contacting Phobos-Grunt, a 29,000-pound, truck-sized probe designed to retrieve samples from the largest moon of Mars and return them to Earth.

Officials have been unable to contact Phobos-Grunt since a problem prevented the craft from exiting Earth orbit and accelerating toward Mars after liftoff Nov. 8.

Russia sought help from ESA, which maintains a network of radio stations around the world. ESA's Perth station heard a signal from Phobos-Grunt at about 2025 GMT (3:25 p.m. EST) Tuesday, the space agency announced. It was one of four communications attempts Tuesday."
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[MAC02134]

Sheila: thanks for this... was wondering why no word about it lately and BOOM there your video appeared! I have lost Stereo of your microphone; you've been in the right ear for two/three days and left ear before then. What happened to BOTH sides of the recording channels?? much lerv.

[Sheilaaliens]

@MAC02134 my camera only has 1 audio-out port ... so its either the right or the left, white pill or red pill... monotastic. not sure how to make it stereo after that :\

[Sheilaaliens]

@MAC02134 after reformatting my computer, can't get the proper driver for the built-in monitor mic i have, derp :(

[quantumtheo]

@Sheilaaliens what kind of monitor is it?

[Sheilaaliens]

@quantumtheo DELL SX2210 flat panel. I know, goto dell. com and get the driver well. I keep getting error pages and dead ends and 404 errors from dell. com and no its not my connection it is something wrong with those pages on dell. com... its frustrating. cant access the page that supposedly has the driver. trouble finding it in any forums too

[Edwardbwalti]

I love the sound of your voice

[cbcoza]

Always have a neglected ear, this time the Right. Mono recording? :p

[MrUr3rdEye]

@megoforo I will translate this:) The Yankees are still in the United States cold war, missile defense system deployed on the Russian border and sabotage the Russian space flight since the Yankee radar alaska cause failure of the probe Phobos

[JSprayaEntertainment]

2:50 blah blah blah " lol

[megoforo]

LOS YANKIS EUA siguen con la guerra fria, emplazaran escudo antimisiles en la frontera rusa y sabotean la cosmonautica rusa ya que el radar yanki de alaska provoco el fallo de la sonda fobos