Planetary Science
EXOMARS
OperationalPlanetary ScienceHeliocentric
ExoMars is an astrobiology programme of the European Space Agency (ESA) composed of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), the Schiaparelli lander, and a future rover Rosalind Franklin. The goals of ExoMars are to search for signs of past life on Mars, investigate how the Martian water and geochemical environment varies, investigate atmospheric trace gases and their sources and, by doing so, demonstrate the technologies for a future Mars sample-return mission.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 14, 2016 at 09:31 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan
- Launched by
- Proton-M Briz-M →
- Operator
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Mission
- ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter & EDM Schiaparelli lander
- Launch record
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Trajectory
- Regime
- Interplanetary — Heliocentric
- Reference body
- Heliocentric
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2016-017A
- NORAD catalog №
- 41388
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
- European Space Agency
- Status
- Operational
