Russian Phobos-Grunt Failure to Delay Chandrayaan-2

• Russian Phobos-Grunt Failure to Delay Chandrayaan-2 by sanman on 12 Feb, 2012 19:15
• Russian sources say that the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission will impact the Chandrayaan-2 mission, delaying it by 3 years:
  
  http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article2854134.ece
  
  This is because technologies and systems used in Phobos-Grunt are also present in the Russian lander which is to be used for the Chandrayaan-2 mission, and these will have to be subjected to review.
  
  The Chandrayaan-2 mission was originally scheduled for launch in 2013, but was facing delays due to the 2 consecutive failures of the GSLV. The mission is now expected to be delayed until 2016, due to the failure of Phobos-Grunt.
  
  Here's an image of the prototype Chandrayaan-2 lunar rover being developed at IIT-Kanpur:
  
  http://lunarnetworks.blogspot.com/2010/08/chandrayaan-2-rover-prototype.html
  
  
• #1 by Jason1701 on 13 Feb, 2012 04:22
• On the positive side, this gives teams more time to win the GLXP.