The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it will end cooperation with Russia on the European ExoMars Rover, a space probe program for Mars.
The ExoMars project is a collaboration between Russian space agency Roscosmos and ESA, which originally planned to launch a spacecraft in September 2022, but in March. . It has suspended the release of the vehicle. after Russia began “Special military operations in Ukraine”
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ESA Director-General Joseph Ashbacher said the latest resolution, the ESA Council, has decided to Officially “cut off ties” with Ross Cosmos. as a result of the war in Ukraine and the ongoing sanctions by Western nations. The future of the project will have more details next week.
Ashbucker said ESA was considering working closely with NASA instead on future projects. The agency needed to cut off ties with Russia.
“In geopolitics It is clear that we need to cut ties with Russia. And this decision was made by the Member States … Yes, it is really unfortunate for the whole circle of science and technology. and engineers who have been working on this for four decades, but we have no other choice,” Ashbucker said.
ExoMars was originally scheduled to be delivered to Mars from July 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic causing the schedule to be postponed and the consequences of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict causing this project to be canceled in the end
Part of ExoMars missions include drilling a 2 meter deep hole on the Martian surface. to collect samples for data analysis Because researchers estimate that Samples collected underground are likely to have a higher chance of biomarkers found on the surface.
NASA has estimated that ExoMars can travel several kilometers during its mission. and can move between 50-100 meters per day
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