HTTP:: ExoMars Delayed to 2018
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The European Space Agency's (ESA) flagship mission to the Red Planet, the ExoMars rover, has been delayed to 2018, after delegates from EU members states agreed to the proposition the space agency made. The 2016 launch window, for which ExoMars was originally planned, would be taken up by an orbiter and a small, static lander instead, the agency revealed. The reason for the delay is that the Europeans are pushing towards fitting the alloted budget for the mission and also for introducing as many scientific pieces of equipment as possible into the rover, the BBC News reports. The current budget for the ExoMars mission â€" as established last November by a triennial ministerial meeting â€" is of 850 million euros, a sum that is simply insufficient to cover all the expenses associated with integrating that much new technology aboard a single, small, car-sized machine. Because of this, the agency agreed to team up with NASA in the future, to explore the Red Planet. Jointly, t!
he two agencies decided that the costs of individual exploring craft on Mars were simply too high, and that a teamed approach was the best solution. The collaboration would start in 2016, they recently announced. “The council was pretty good. The two-mission scenario is accepted by all and the long-term cooperation with the US is welcomed. For ...
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