The plane, which had been due to land on Phobos, taking samples of soil and rock, then back again to Earth, it is, fails to start the engine driving the plane was supposed to direct the path toward a trip to orbit Mars. Space vehicle is then "stuck" in Earth orbit since its launch on 9 November, and is expected to fall to the Earth's surface next month.
USSTRATCOM said, Phobos-Grunt will enter Earth's atmosphere January 14 at 2:22 in the morning Moscow time, and will fall around the coordinates 30.7 degrees north latitude and 62.3 degrees east longitude in the southwest region of Afghanistan, around the town Mirabad.
Russian Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, earlier said the plane was going down 6 to 19 January 2012, at locations that stretched between the coordinates 51.4 degrees north latitude and 51.4 degrees south latitude.
The area includes the continental U.S., China, Africa, Australia, Japan, Middle East, southwestern Europe, Ukraine, and a small region of Russia. However, Roscosmos can not disclose the exact time of the crash until a few days before it happened.
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