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[i]A powerful electromagnetic emission from a U.S. radar in the Pacific could have caused the malfunctioning of the Russian Phobos-Grunt probe, the Kommersant daily said on Tuesday. A Russian government investigation commission is considering several causes of the failure, including a short circuit or "external impact," the paper said citing an unnamed source in the Russian space industry. "Experts do not dismiss the possibility that the probe could have accidentally come under the impact of emissions [from a U.S. radar stationed on the Marshall Islands], whose megawatt impulse triggered the malfunctioning of on-board electronics," the source said.[/i]
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