This thread is intended for comments and questions regarding the Phobos-Grunt mission and the updates published under the topic:
Russia's Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars' moon.
Phobos-Grunt is Russian sample return mission to Phobos, one of the moons of Mars. The Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 will be sent together with the mission, as will the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment funded by the Planetary Society.
Phobos-Grunt is to become the first Russian interplanetary mission since the failed Mars 96 mission. If successful it will be the first spacecraft to return a macroscopic extraterrestrial sample from a planetary body since Luna 24 in 1976.