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Launched 2023
Failed · FailureRussia's first lunar mission since 1976, targeted at the south polar region and lost when communications ceased days after launch.
Launched 1996
Failed · FailureThe Russian Mars 96 mission was designed to send an orbiter, two small autonomous stations, and two surface penetrators to Mars to investigate the evolution and contemporary physics of the planet by studying the physical and chemical processes which took place in the past and which currently take place. The Mars 96 spacecraft was launched into Earth orbit, but failed to achieve insertion into Mars cruise trajectory and re-entered the Earth's atmosphere at about 00:45 to 01:30 UT on 17 November 1996 and crashed within a presumed 320 km by 80 km area which includes parts of the Pacific Ocean, Chile, and Bolivia. The cause of the crash is not known.
Launched 1992
Lost · FailureMars Observer, the first of the Observer series of planetary missions, was designed to study the geoscience and climate of Mars. Its primary science objectives were to determine the global elemental and mineralogical character of the surface material, define globally the topography and gravitational field, establish the nature of the Martian magnetic field, determine the distribution and abundance of volatiles and dust over a seasonal cycle, and explore the structure and circulation of the atmosphere. NASA's Deep Space Chronicle places loss of contact at 01:00 UT on August 22, 1993. The failure board report says telemetry did not return at the expected 00:54 GMT ground-reception time after a planned radio-silence interval; NSSDCA gives August 21 at day precision. Contact was never re-established. It remains unknown whether the spacecraft followed its automatic program into Mars orbit or flew past Mars into heliocentric orbit. Although none of the primary objectives were achieved, cruise data were collected until contact was lost.