June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
... UK becoming a leading member of ESA’s Aurora programme and the ESA ExoMars mission. The UK is leading the design and building of the Rover for the ExoMars 2018 mission at Airbus Defence and Space, Stevenage. The rover will...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... are two entities: Leonardo SpA from Nerviano, Italy, which has significant experience from developing the ExoMars and Rosetta lander drills, and the Open University in Milton Keynes, UK, which has successfully developed highly...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
... have also had the knock-on effect of reducing cooperation in the middle ground, especially Europe. The current ExoMars project, the biggest single project in European-Russian space science cooperation, was agreed before 2014, but...
03 January 2017
What did 2016 do for us?
...our own, ESO sent a Trace Gas Orbiter to Mars (ExoMars), but lost sight of its lander, JUNO arrived at Jupiter... to in 2017 in terms of astronomical discoveries? Although JUNO and ExoMars are now in place to extend our knowledge of these two planets...
09 January 2019
New self-driving rovers being tested for Mars
... the UK is a key player in this cutting-edge field.” The UK Space Agency is the second largest European contributor to ExoMars – the first being Italy – having invested €287 (£258) million in the mission and €15.5 (£14) million on the instruments...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... reliable cooperation among the main space actors in Europe is of the utmost importance.” Artist’s impression depicting the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, on the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading...
