European-Russian mission to Mars postponed. Blame the coronavirus?
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A Joint Russian-European mission to Mars delayed by two years, said the world's space agencies, citing technical problems. whose main goal was the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars in the distant past the planet was planned to be launched in July 2020, however, due to the instability of the global situation, the research unit will be able to reach the red planet's surface until July 2023. How does the coronavirus may prevent the conduct of the research programs?
Why the coronavirus to blame for the cancellation of the ExoMars program?
Outbreak of the coronavirus and connected with it the panic caused a significant time delay in startup . So a tough decision was made by the leadership of Roskosmos, in particular well-known politician Dmitry Rogozin, who said that further testing of the spacecraft will be continued in August or September 2022.
Delayed unmanned mission ExoMars is already not for the first time. So, the mission, initially developed only for the European Space Agency, aimed to launch Rover in 2011. However, shortly after the beginning of the development of the programme, the ExoMars mission has been suspended for several years up until the merger of the program with other projects. After the mission was divided into two separate start, the project was again suspended for an indefinite time. One of the reasons that influenced the revision at the end of the first decade of the XXI century was the limited financial contribution of Italy to the development of the project.
After a few failed attempts to launch, and ESA decided to rebuild the program, signing a cooperation agreement in which both agencies had to develop the Russian project and the European “ExoMars”, whose main task was the search of possible traces of past Martian life and learning the details of the surface of the fourth planet from the Sun.
the Prototype device, “TRANS Gus Orbiter”, developed in the framework of the “ExoMars”
Barely allowing a number of technical problems encountered during the design mission, the leadership of both space agencies faced a new problem — coronavirus, which has become the main cause of the difficult epidemiological situation in the world, says the portal . So, according to Jan Werner, Director General of ESA, currently the specialists involved in the development of an ambitious project, almost no opportunity to visit their foreign colleagues due to the significant limitations of the transport accessibility between the European States. In addition, the migration of the Russian-European mission was influenced by the fact of incomplete readiness of the components of the spacecraft. According to experts, conduct additional tests must ensure the safe journey of the spacecraft and the best results .
has become one of the most discussed topics in the network and beyond, starting with the end of 2019. In addition to the transfer space mission “ExoMars”, the infection has caused the cancellation of a number of public events worldwide, ranging from the UN and ending with the closure of the quarantine of several Italian provinces.
ExoMars Mission postponed for 2 years
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