27 April 2018
First images from ExoMars in its new orbit
...Nicolas Thomas from the University of Bern in Switzerland. THE TGO is not meandering around the Red Planet simply to take pretty...Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft,” says Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s TGO project scientist. “The test images we have seen so ...
17 October 2016
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbitor positions itself ready for its planned orbit insertion on Wednesday
... the Red Planet and relay in real-time to Earth, the most important data measured by Schiaparelli. The TGO also carries scientific instruments of its own to detect and study trace gases, such as methane, water vapour...
14 April 2016
All systems go as ExoMars sends back its first image
...descent, and landing demonstrator and the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) to ensure they will be ready for when the ... to us being able to get good data at Mars.” So far, TGO and Schiaparelli have completed more than 83 million km of their 500 million ...
09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
.... These mission objectives will be carried out with the TGO, while Schiaparelli will contain sensors to evaluate the lander’s...may encounter a highly dust-loaded atmosphere. Meanwhile, the TGO will be placed initially into an elliptical orbit around ...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
... on 16 October 2016, some seven months after launch. Schiaparelli will enter the Martian atmosphere on 19 October, while TGO will enter orbit around Mars. Within ESA itself, the relationship between ESA activities and the...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
... Spectrometer (UVIS) instrument channel, built by the Open University and launched on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) in March 2016. Adaptations to ELVIS (optimising the wavelength range of the detectors, using an alternative diffraction grating...
