Faulty components caused simultaneous reboot on Phobos-Grunt

Phobos

After previously suggesting that the Phobos-Grunt sample/return mission to the Martian moon Phobos had been the victim of some kind of radar jamming or interference - possibly intentional - the head of Russia's Roscosmos space agency, Vladimir Popovkin, noted that charged particles from the Sun affecting imported components in the ...

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