According to a recent statement released by the European Space Agency, the current situation has jeopardized any future launch.
The sanctions imposed on Russia by our Member States make a launch in 2022 very unlikely.
The Russian state space agency is involved in the mission. It is intended to look for signs of life on the Red Planet. NASA's two rovers and lander and another rover launched by China already operate on the planet, and the ExoMars rover was expected to join them. The military action against Ukraine last week has made that time frame impossible.
The war in Ukraine is a crisis, according to the director general of the ESA.
The tragic events taking place in Ukraine are deplored by Aschbacher.
That bad piece of news sounds familiar. The summer 2020 launch of ExoMars was pushed back due to a combination of technical delays and the covid-19 epidemic. The first mission of the ExoMars program, which arrived at Mars in 2016 was a mixed success, but the Schiaparelli lander that arrived with it crashed on the Martian surface.
The best time to launch a spaceship to Mars is once every 26 months, which can lead to long delays.
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