European Space Agency (ESA) ground station in Australia in the Tuesday and carrying Firefly One of the first Mars probe soil Forbes established a link, contact the second lasted 6 minutes, received telemetry reports can help identify the cause engine failure.

Russian Mars probe launched after November 9, remained in Earth orbit, it flew into the window of opportunity to the orbit of Mars has been getting smaller and smaller. Even if it can fly to Mars, it can not return to Earth, because the return to Earth of the window has closed. If you read the telemetry from the technical staff report, it is possible to perform other space missions. Forbes soil scientist Alexander Zakharov said the task, if the detector to normal operation, it is most likely the task is to study a near-Earth asteroids.