Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Russia Asks If US Radar Ruined Space Probe


Russia will look into the possibility that a U.S. radar station could have inadvertently interfered with the failed Mars moon probe that plummeted to Earth, Russian media reported Tuesday, but experts argued that any such claims were far-fetched.
NASA spokesman Bob Jacobs also said the U.S. space agency was not using the military radar equipment in question at the time of the Russian equipment failure, but instead was using radar in the Mojave desert in the western United States and in Puerto Rico.

MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/russia-asks-us-radar-ruined-space-probe-15375826#.TxYgVvlmbt8

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