The European Mission Control Center (MCC) established contact with the Russian-European interplanetary mission ExoMars, 2016 TASS reported in the Russian Mission Control Center. “Having received the report of receiving a signal from the interplanetary station ExoMars”, – told the Center, which is being broadcast flight. “At this stage there is a certain result of the launch vehicle was successfully fulfilled and completed its task.”, – Said the head of state corporation “Roscosmos” Igor Komarov told reporters after the successful launch ExoMars device on the flight path to the Red Planet.
The fact that the machine is ExoMars, launched in the framework of the joint mission of the Russian Space Agency and the European Space Agency (ESA), has successfully made contact after the separation from the upper stage, and is reported in the official Twitter ESA. Telemetry data indicate that the device is on the right path on the way to Mars. the solar battery device was successfully deployed and charged, the report said.
As recalled by Igor Komarov, the next phase of the mission will begin on the Martian orbit in October. Asked by Tass, whether the Russian MCC responsible for the further control mission on a par with European, Komarov said that the bulk of the work will be performed by European experts. “But if necessary, the team participated here in Russia, will also be provided,” – said the head of “Roskosmos”.
The mission includes the device Trace Gas Orbiter, and landing demonstration module Schiaparelli. Carrier rocket “Proton-M” with them started at 12:31 Moscow time on March 14 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. At 12:41 of the third stage of the carrier separated from the bunch of the upper stage and ExoMars, after which the “Breeze-M” four times include propulsion system to display an interplanetary mission to the desired trajectory.
At 23:13 Moscow time the upper stage separated from ExoMars, which continued the flight alone.
The path to the fourth ExoMars takes seven months from the sun planet. It is planned on 16 October aids section to 19th Schiaparelli entered the planet’s atmosphere, and TGO went into orbit. Once a year the orbiter will brake on the atmosphere, so that the equipment will start working in mid-2017. According to specialists, the orbiter can be maintained until the end of 2022.
Trace Gas Orbiter will examine, in particular, small trace gases of the atmosphere and the distribution of water ice in the soil of Mars. Schiaparelli module is designed for testing input technologies into the atmosphere, descent, landing and research. He will work on Mars only a few days until the end of charge of the batteries.
The second stage of ExoMars mission to Mars involves sending Russian landing platform and a European rover. The key tasks in this stage will be the drilling and analysis of Martian soil. According to one hypothesis, at a depth of several meters could be preserved traces of organic life. It was planned that the second phase will take place in 2018, but before the head of “Roskosmos” Igor Komarov said that discussing the transfer of the mission in 2020.
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