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ESA to launch Mars mission in partnership with NASA


The ExoMars programme will be launched in partnership with NASA. Image credit: ESA

PARIS (BNS): The European Space Agency, in collaboration with NASA, will launch two Mars exploration missions in 2016 and 2018.

The ExoMars mission will be undertaken to probe the Martian atmosphere, especially astrobiological issues and to develop and demonstrate new technologies for planetary exploration with a long-term view of a future Mars sample return mission in the 2020s, ESA said.

The project, for which around $1.2 billion (850 million euro) has been sanctioned, will include an Orbiter plus an Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator, to be launched in 2016, and two rovers which would be sent in 2018.

�This marks an important moment for Europe in its steps towards space exploration on the world scale,� David Southwood, Director of Science and Robotic Exploration, said.

�We have been to the planets before, sure. But now we have a plan for exploration ahead to build our technical capability and explore Mars in a long-term partnership,� he said.

Eleven of ESA�s 17 member states are participating in the project.

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