19 October 2016
Success for TGO orbit insertion and its looking good for Schiaparelli too
Things are looking good for ESA’s ExoMars 2016 mission as the eagerly awaited signal confirming that the TGO had ... mission will start at the end of 2017. It will also act as a relay for ESA’s ExoMars rover when it heads to the Red Planet in 2020.
08 February 2019
ESA's new Mars rover has a new name
... Franklin’ from over 36 000 entries submitted by citizens from all ESA Member States, following a competition launched by the UK Space Agency in July last year. The ExoMars rover will be the first of its kind to combine the capability to roam...
21 May 2021
New study suggests organic salts are likely present on Mars
...and colleagues suggest that until the European Space Agency’s forthcoming ExoMars rover lands on there Red Planet, CheMin is the best option ... matter could be better preserved,” Lewis says. The ExoMars rover is equipped to drill down to 2 meters, and...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... size distribution, flow properties and modal mineral proportions are not well defined. Artist’s impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover. Consequently, simulating these lunar and martian surface materials is not a trivial feat, but it can be simplified...
17 June 2016
ExoMars' Trace Gas Orbiter Sends Back First Mars Image
... mission. Then, in 2020, a Roscosmos-built lander will deliver the ESA-built ExoMars Rover to the Martian surface. Mission operations and communications are led by ALTEC's Rover Control Center in Italy. Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli (Copyright...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
.../August 2020. Airbus is already in the process of building another rover bound for Mars (ESA’a ExoMars rover) at its Stevenage base and after securing a contract worth £3.9 million from ESA, the knowledge and expertise mastered in that project will...
