Rogozin: launch ExoMars – “revenge” for the failure with the “Phobos-Grunt” – RIA Novosti

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MOSCOW, March 15 -. RIA Novosti successful launch ExoMars Russia “took revenge” for the failure with “Phobos-Grunt” in 2011, he said Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.

Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with the station ExoMars 2016 was launched from Baikonur March 14 at 12.33 MSK, the separation of the spacecraft from the upper stage occurred at 23.13 MSK. On Tuesday, the Centre of the European Space Agency’s mission control (ESA) established communication with the first in the history of the European Union cooperation and Russian space station for life on Mars Search ExoMars 2016 ( “exomars 2016″).

“Russian raketa- carrier “Proton-M” and upper stage worked on the “solid top five”, moving the European satellites with pinpoint accuracy on the right path that does not require additional correction of his self-contained engine. it is a kind of revenge taken by the Russian Space Agency for a series of past failures, the most offensive of which, perhaps, is the fiasco in 2011, the mission “Phobos-Grunt”, – wrote Rogozin in his TwitLonger blog

He said that such a “high-tech cooperation between the EU and Russia is realized in the midst of Western sanctions” that hinder in. procurement of radiation-electronic-component base category “space”, which is the basis for the space Instrument

“And, nevertheless, we did it in the shortest possible time to provide themselves at the expense of own production with all necessary”, -. stressed Rogozin.

ExoMars-2016 and ExoMars-2018 is a unique joint project of the European space agency (ESA) and the state corporation “Roscosmos”. During the first orbital mission Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) module will study atmospheric trace species and the distribution of water ice in the Martian soil, including by using Russian scientific instruments, developed at the Institute of Space Research. It is expected that Schiaparelli demo landing module fulfills entry into the atmosphere and will make landing on the surface of the Red Planet.

The second stage of the mission is planned to implement during the next start-up in 2018, when Mars is scheduled to deliver a full descent module and a rover. Through the implementation of the second phase of the mission ExoMars in Europe and Russia is the first time will be able to drill the soil of Mars two meters in depth

The automatic interplanetary station “Phobos-Grunt-1.” – The first in 15 years Russia’s AMS is designed to delivery of soil samples from the Martian satellite – was launched on the night of November 9, 2011. Marching propulsion plant will not run and could not put the unit on the flight path to Mars. “Phobos-Grunt” was left in Earth orbit, and January 15, 2012 the probe fragments fell to Earth in the Pacific Ocean.