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The Chinese Mars orbiter Yinghuo-1 was sent together with the mission, along with the Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment funded by the Planetary Society.

However, according to Fobos-Grunt Chief Designer Maksim Martynov, the probability of the probe accidentally reaching the surface of Mars is much lower than the maximum specified for Category III missions, the type assigned to Fobos-Grunt and defined in COSPAR's planetary protection policy (in accordance with Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty).

kingdom at that time as "tenuous".