Starting a new mission to Mars Live – National Geographic Russia

Start rocket “Proton-M” with the upper stage “Breeze-M” and the two spacecraft: the descent module demonstration Schiaparelli ( “Schiaparelli”) and the orbital module Trace Gas Orbiter ( «Trace Gas Orbiter”) – is scheduled for 12: 31 MSK. Broadcast of TV Roskosmos will begin at 11:45 MSK.

A live webcast will be available on the Roscosmos website, as well as search engine Yandex.ru page by clicking on a theme or logo Yandex on request [exomars]. Those who do not have time to start, will be able to watch the broadcast in the record.

In the television studio of Roscosmos for launch will watch Agency specialists and other scientists who will talk about the problems of the first stage of the Russian-European Mars exploration program, the international the value of the project, on the preparation and launch of the carrier rocket and the technologies used to study Mars

ExoMars -. a joint project of the state corporation Roscosmos and the European space agency (ESA). Demonstration descent module will work Schiaparelli planting technology on the surface of the Red Planet. Orbital module Trace Gas Orbiter will study atmospheric trace species and the distribution of water ice in the Martian soil, including by using Russian scientific instruments, developed at the Institute of Space Research. The orbital module will also relay data from Schiaparelli module and the rover the next phase of the mission.

heavy class “Proton” launch vehicle and the upper stage “Breeze-M” has been developed and commercially produced FSUE “State Research and Production Space Center Lomonosov Khrunichev, “and is used to launch payloads into near-earth orbits and escape trajectories. It is characterized by high energy and performance. Upgraded “Proton-M”, equipped with the upper stage “Breeze-M”, capable of delivering on a geosynchronous transfer orbit a payload of more than 6 tonnes

The expected time of flight of the carrier rocket to Mars -. Seven months. And in the 2018 mission to the Red Planet will be sent to the rover exomars.

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