Japanese mission to Mars ended in failure

The Japanese research probzomi research probe ("Hope") was lost irrevocably. This was reported today by the National Agency for the Comrade Space Studies.

“Due to the inability to establish a connection with the device, I had to abandon the idea of ​​bringing it into the orbit of the Red Planet, scientists admitted.

Nodzomi, worth $ 166 million, will remain an artificial satellite of the Sun, aimlessly spinning in a heliostationary orbit, ITAR-TASS reports.

The mission to Mars began in the summer of 1998 and immediately faced serious problems. Soon after the output into space, the M-5 launch vehicle “Nadezhda” had an overspending of fuel, and the probe reached the wrong orbit.

It was possible to "paste out" in the direction of Mars only last summer with the help of gravitational maneuvers, when the device sharply changes the trajectory, accelerating due to the power of attraction (in this case, the land).

However, by this time, Hope was partially out of order as a result of a powerful flash in the sun , and when it approached Mars, the connection broke completely.