European-Russian Mars mission delayed

The second stage of the joint European-Russian Mars mission is to be delayed until 2020.

The second stage of a joint European-Russian mission to search for signs of life on Mars will be delayed from 2018 to 2020, Russian news agencies reported.

A statement from the Russian space agency Roscosmos it and the European Space Agency had taken the decision to delay the second stage of the ExoMars mission partly because of delays by European and Russian industrial contractors.

In March, Europe and Russia launched a spacecraft from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan as part of the ExoMars program.


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