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Grypd

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From: Scotland, Europe

Registered: 2004-06-07

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

The ExoMars mission to Mars by Europes ESA is considering an upgrade.

BBC ExoMars to be "upgraded"

The current plan was to send a rover with a carrier shell discarded when it enters orbit of Mars. The Upgrade is to change this carrier into an orbiter and it will be able to provide data transfer as well as providing a science package in space. This will benefit ESA in allowing there rover to be less reliant on data transfer Via Nasa's orbiters and also allow an option to upgrade future missions communications.

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Yang Liwei Rocket

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

I wonder if it will happen, looks like a good project

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cIclops

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Registered: 2005-06-16

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

The ExoMars mission to Mars by Europes ESA is considering an upgrade.

BBC ExoMars to be "upgraded"

The current plan was to send a rover with a carrier shell discarded when it enters orbit of Mars. The Upgrade is to change this carrier into an orbiter

The Beeb are not the best source of news about science; they fail to mention that the original ExoMars project includued an orbiter. In fact ESA are still showing the orbiter on their web site.

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Grypd

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From: Scotland, Europe

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

Yes but with the landers weight being increased the orbiter part was dropped and it was never really more than a proposal. It has now been decided that it would make a good idea to have it in place.

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SpaceNut

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Registered: 2004-07-22

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

Design boost for European rover mission to send to Mars in 2013 to search for past or present life.

It consists of a 205kg vehicle, carrying a 16.5kg package of science instruments together with a drill or "mole" for burrowing beneath the Martian soil- and it incorporates a 30kg Geophysics/Environment Package (GEP).

Engineers have demonstrated a vented, or dead-beat, airbag technology which have a military heritage.

Success for Mars rover bag test

Yang Liwei Rocket

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Re: ExoMars to be "Upgraded"

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=23324

Exomars Exhibits Self-Control In Sampling Mars Terrain

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