Phobos program Phobos program The Phobos (, ) program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. "Phobos 1" was launched on 7 July 1988, and "Phobos 2" on 12 July 1988, each aboard a Proton-K rocket. "Phobos 1" suffered a terminal failure en route to Mars. "Phobos 2" attained Mars orbit, but contact was lost before the final phase, prior to deployment of a planned Phobos lander. "Phobos 1" and "2" were of a new spacecraft design, succeeding the type used in the "Venera" planetary missions
Mars One Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft, Mission Concept Artist Bryan Versteeg, Senior Marketing Strategist KC Frank, and Chief Information Officer Tom Van Braeckel. Mars One's team of advisers consists of over 30 industry and scientific experts, including Mason Peck, Peter Smith, James Kass, K.R. Sridhara Murthi, Esther Dyson, and Robert Zubrin. Mars One is not an aerospace company and will not manufacture hardware. Lansdorp assumes all major components are available in the aerospace market, and he thinks he has identified at least one potential supplier for each component of the mission. SpaceX mentioned that they had been contacted by Mars One,