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MOSCOW, June 26 - RIA Novosti. Two Russian instrument, designed to be mounted on the rover mission ExoMars-2020 is practically ready before the end of 2017 they will be delivered to the European Space Agency (the ESA), told RIA Novosti Head of the Laboratory of Space Research Institute (IKI) Daniel Rodionov.
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"The Russian equipment for the European Mars rover mission in 2020 are in a high degree of readiness, we are now completing design and development testing, and in the autumn 2017 will be ready to deliver the European Space Agency flight model to be installed on the rover." - Rodionov said taking part in the opened Monday in IKI SpaceOps seminar.
In April, ESA's Johann-Dietrich Werner Director General said that the first test in preparation for the second expedition ExoMars, scheduled for 2020, will begin no earlier than 2018.
ExoMars ( "exomars") - the first in the history of cooperation between the EU and the Russian project to search for life on Mars. Launching of the project began with the start of the carrier rocket "Proton-M" with the upper stage "Breeze-M" March 14, 2016 from Baikonur, when TGO- devices bunch of "Schiaparelli" was put on the flight path to Mars. The main objective of the orbiter Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) - search for evidence of the presence of methane in the planet's atmosphere, which would confirm the presence or activity of life in the present or the past of Mars. The purpose of the landing module "Schiaparelli" - check the key technologies for the second expedition ExoMars, scheduled for 2020.
After separation apparatus 16 October 2016 TGO has been successfully put into an elliptical orbit, while the descent module "Schiaparelli" could not nominally reach the surface of Mars. Contact with him was lost for about 50 seconds before the estimated time of landing. By assumption, the representatives of ESA, the unit earlier than planned, opened the drogue parachute and its brake motors worked much less than the estimated time. ESA has confirmed later that the machine crashed during landing.
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