The heaviest interplanetary spacecraft launched is about to become one of the most dangerous man-made objects to fall from space when it crashes to the ground next month.
The $245 million Russian Phobos-Ground probe was destined to land on a moon of Mars but problems soon after launch last month meant it was stuck in an unstable, low-Earth orbit.
Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said yesterday that the truck-sized probe, weighing 13.2 tonnes and laden with 11 tonnes of toxic rocket fuel and 10kg of radioactive cobalt-57, would fall to Earth between January 7 and 20.
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