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Moscow, October 8, 2015, 16:18 – REGNUM Roscosmos together with the European Space Agency continues to work on the preparation of the Mars mission “exomars.” So, in March 2016 sent to the Red Planet lander and orbiter “exomars».
Recall that the mission “exomars” planned to launch in January 2016. Recently, however, the timing of the draft revised and transferred in March, as the two sensor lander “Schiaparelli” proved faulty. Note that the lander was named in honor of the discoverer of the famous Martian canals: the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli. Start orbiter and landing module, as planned, it will be implemented with the help of a Russian carrier rocket “Proton-M”.
According to the plans, together with the lander to orbiter will arrive at the Red Planet in October 2016. The battery module will maintain its work for only four days. The main objective of this part of the mission is to test systems before planting project in 2018. Also, the machine will start to collect data on wind speed, humidity and other parameters during the descent. First measured electric field on the surface of Mars.
The problem of Russia during the mission – to provide the European Space Agency backup launcher and rocket “Proton” for the “exomars”, which includes part of the Russian manufacture. IA REGNUM reminiscent of the mission “exomars” aimed at the study of the Red Planet, was originally developed by ESA only, but in 2009 joined the project NASA and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos).
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