NASA PROJECT MARS ABANDONED EXOMARS
NASA abandons Mars.
Great moments of passion followed by phases of apathy: this is the ‘Mars Project‘ for Nasa.
NASA has now decided to no longer work with the European ESA at the ‘ExoMars program‘. The announcement will be official after the presentation of the Agency’s 2013 budget to President Obama. NASA would have to provide parts of the orbiter (instruments and communication systems) and a significant section of the rover.
RUSSIANS ARE COMING – ESA is already ‘talking’ with the Roskosmos agency in order to find a new and powerful contributor to complete the ‘ExoMars program‘. According to the last rumors Russians should provide instruments and communication systems and two Russian Proton rockets.
Interplanetary exploration has never been a success for Russians’ scientists: the last ‘reason’ to justify the failure of the Phobos-Grunt mission is that ‘probably Phobos has been damaged by cosmic rays‘.
NASA will now focus its efforts on the ‘Webb Space Telescope‘, a large, infrared-optimized space telescope. .
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NASA PROJECT MARS ABANDONED
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