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Inauguration of the ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations...

The ExoMars 2020 Rover Operations Control Center (ROCC) was inaugurated on may 30 by Thales Alenia Space, ALTEC, the Italian space agency ASI and the European Space Agency (ESA).

News Sciences

June 11, 2019

Oxia Planum is recommanded as landing site for...

The proposal will be reviewed internally by ESA and Roscosmos with an official confirmation expected mid-2019.

News Sciences

November 23, 2018

First test success for largest mars mission...

The largest parachute ever to fly on a Mars mission has been deployed in the first of a series of tests to prepare for the upcoming ExoMars mission that will deliver a rover and a...

News Sciences

May 23, 2018

ExoMars: Schiaparelli spotted by MRO

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has identified markings probably left by the impact of the Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing technology demonstrator module on the...

News Sciences

October 25, 2016

ExoMars 2016: TGO enters Martian orbit

The ExoMars 2016 mission’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) was successfully captured into Martian orbit Wednesday 19 October. However, the landing of Schiaparelli had still not been...

News Sciences

October 19, 2016

Press Release: CNES’s Science Programmes...

CNES’s Science Programmes Committee (CPS) met on Wednesday 21 September at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles. The committee’s chief purpose is to advise the CNES Board...

News Sciences

September 22, 2016

ExoMars 2016: Perfecting the Trajectory!

On 19 October, the landing demonstrator known as ExoMars Schiaparelli will touch down on Mars after detaching itself from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). Its job is to validate new...

News Observation General public

September 2, 2016

European payload selected for ExoMars 2018...

Two European instruments and four European contributions on two Russian instruments have been selected for the Russian-led science platform that will land on Mars as part of the...

News Sciences

December 4, 2015

Rover egress tests in Toulouse

This week a simulation stretching between France (SEROM in CNES Toulouse) and the Netherlands will let ESA’s Planetary Robotics Laboratory test such an ‘egress’ scenario.

News Sciences Institutional

October 28, 2015