Phobos 1 Phobos 1 Phobos 1 was an unmanned Russian space probe of the Phobos Program launched from the Baikonour launch facility on 7 July 1988. Its intended mission was to explore Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission failed on 2 September 1988 when a computer malfunction caused the end-of-mission order to be transmitted to the spacecraft. At the time of launch it was the heaviest interplanetary spacecraft ever launched, weighing . It was to take an estimated 200 days for the "Phobos 1" space probe to travel from the Earth to Mars. Two mid-course corrections were planned. The
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,