During the two days of probe, the European-Russian ExoMars 2016 mission will often visit the red Planet. The orbit should get in Trace Gas Orbiter, but on the surface he will be a demonstrator of Technology EDM Schiaparelli.
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the purpose of the mission ExoMars 2016, implemented in cooperation with the Russian company Roscosmos is the search for biological traces of life on Mars. The mission consists of four spacecraft platforms that will be sent towards the red Planet in two rounds. 14 March 2016, the Russian rocket ” proton-M made in space lander EDM Schiaparelli, studying the weather conditions on Mars orbiter ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) applying on the surface trace gases associated with life processes or geological studies.
the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC in the German city of Darmstadt, the flight control is hard at work on the last events associated with the flight of both probes to the target. 16 Oct at 16:42 Moscow time occurred the separation of the two space probes. Lander EDM Schiaparelli is on the last line. Entry will begin at 16:42 on Wednesday, October 19. Also landing in the Meridiani Temporale near the Martian equator should take place about six minutes later.
Schiaparelli EDM is primarily a demonstrator, which has, first of all, check out the technology entry and lądownia that ESA in 2020 will use to land the ExoMars Rover in 2020 on the surface of the red Planet. He EDM Schiaparelli was developed only for a few days work on the surface of Mars. Mission orbitera TGO has, and to take at least seven years.
the Last moments before the goal was for the flight controllers, especially nervous. Immediately after separation the lander EDM aboard the Trace Gas Orbiter a malfunction has occurred, and, although the signal transmission, the probe ceased to transmit telemetry. Fortunately, the same day the problem was resolved at the time to maneuver the adjustments, which took place at 4:42 Moscow time in the night from Sunday to Monday. Without this maneuver the TGO would be like EDM Schiaparelli, on a collision course with Mars.
Main engine start TGO has to begin on October 19 at 15:09 Moscow time and enters a probe on a highly elliptical orbit around Mars with parameters 298 x 95856 miles. Engines will last 134 minutes. Then, using aerobrakingu, TGO will be released on the operating orbit and will begin scientific measurement.
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