ESA and Roscosmos partnering for Mars missions
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ExoMars rover
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, signing the partnership agreement
ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin
Trace Gas Orbiter will seek out traces of methane in the Martian atmosphere
Proposed design for the ESA 2018 ExoMars rover (image: Jastrow/Wikipedia)
EDM lander
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ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have entered into a project to jointly explore the planet Mars. During a ceremony on Thursday (Mar. 14) at ESA Headquarters in Paris, the two agencies formed a partnership for ESA’s ExoMars program when a formal agreement was signed between ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin. This agreement covers shared responsibilities for two missions involving three spacecraft in 2016 and 2018.
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