No European Mars mission this year, due to war in Ukraine
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And if cooperation on the mission with Roscosmos, Russia’s state space corporation, cannot be resumed, then it's likely to be 2026 or 2028 before the ExoMars rover is blasted off toward the red planet, the European Space Agency said Thursday. Previous plans to launch the probe with Russia this September are now “practically impossible but also politically impossible," said the agency's director, Dr Josef Aschbacher. “While recognizing the impact on scientific exploration of space, ESA is fully aligned with the sanctions imposed on Russia by its member states.” Because of their respective orbits around the Sun, Mars is only readily reachable from Earth every two years.
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