ESA Mars rover programme makes significant advance with tests of duplicate unit

The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that its duplicate ExoMars rover is now fully assembled and has started test and training operations at the Mars Terrain Simulator, which is hosted by Italy’s Aerospace Logistics Technology Engineering Company, in Turin. This is in preparation for the actual ExoMars lander/rover mission, which will launch in late 2022 and is scheduled to land on the Red Planet in June 2023. (ESA is quite separate from the European Union.) ExoMars is a two-stage ...

from Engineering News | Home https://ift.tt/2Rv28od