An artist’s impression depicts the separation of the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, named Schiaparelli, from the Trace Gas Orbiter, and heading for Mars
European-Russian spacecraft were on course for Mars Monday after crucial deep-space manoeuvres in preparation for a daring mission to find evidence of life on the Red Planet. The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mothership despatched the tiny Mars lander called Schiaparelli Sunday on a 3-day trek to the Martian surface in a key phase of the joint ExoMars project. There were nervous moments for ground controllers when TGO, designed to enter Mars’ orbit to analyse its atmosphere for life, stopped sending status updates for about an hour before coming back online.
In the early hours of Monday, the TGO successfully complet...
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