Proton-M Briz-M | ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter & EDM Schiaparelli lander
Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center200/39 (200L) — Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter & EDM Schiaparelli lander
- Type
- Planetary Science
- Target orbit
- Heliocentric N/A (Helio-N/A)
This is the first part of ESA’s and Roscosmos’s Mars exploration programme (ExoMars). The launch in the 2016 Mars window will consist of an orbiter and lander and will take 7 months to travel to Mars. The Trace Gas Orbiter will search for trace gases in the atmosphere such as methane and hydrogen. The Schiaparelli lander will travel with the orbiter until each reaches Mars, where it will attempt to descend through the atmosphere and land on the surface. The lander only contains a small array of scientific instruments, to conduct experiments over 4 Martian days.
schedule
- NET (no earlier than)
- Window opens
- Window closes
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Proton-M Briz-M
- Family
- Proton / UR-500
- Variant
- Briz-M
- Provider
- Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center
- Type
- Government
- Country
- RUS
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launch site
- Pad
- 200/39 (200L)
- Location
- Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
- Country
- KAZ
- Timezone
- Asia/Qyzylorda
- Coordinates
- 46.0400, 63.0321