the Modules of the project “Eczemas” successfully split before landing on the Red planet. On Sunday, October 16, reported on the website of Roscosmos.
“October 16, 2016, has successfully passed the Department airborne demonstration module Schiaparelli (“list”) from the orbital module TGO (Trace Gas Orbiter — orbital module) mission “ExoMars-2016″ on the approach to Mars”, — stated in the message.
In the future, Schiaparelli continues on a trajectory crossing the orbit of Mars, and the spacecraft TGO October 17, will perform a maneuver transition to hyperbolic with respect to Mars’s orbit on 19 October will begin braking maneuvers for entering orbit of the red planet.
Schiaparelli Landing is scheduled for October 19. On the same day, the module will start transmitting a signal from the surface that will receive and record the Mars probes Mars Express, and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter TGO. Russia plans signal reception module TGO stations in Bear lakes and oceans.
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TGO will study small gas pollutants in the atmosphere and the distribution of water ice in the Mars soil. Schiaparelli designed for development of the technology of atmospheric entry, descent, and landing research. It will work on Mars for a few days, until the battery charge.
the Russian-European mission “ExoMars-2016″ Mar 14 was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome using rocket “proton-M”.
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