The only thing that angers Rogozin is if his funding is cut, but apparently this is not foreseen.
Say it with me Russia : Pariah. State.
Now piss off.
> Aschbacher said last month he is in “intense discussion” with US space agency NASA to get the rover to Mars, adding that he was “very confident that we find a good partnership”.
Um. So, did ESA actually get the payload back from Roscosmos? Because, while I haven’t heard anything about the ESA stuff, Roscosmos said that they weren’t going to give back the British OneWeb satellites that they had physical possession of back.
IIRC, there’s some launch window that has to be hit for reaching Mars, and after that, a long delay until the next launch window, so either ESA has to get it back or have to reconstruct a new one from the plans made for the existing one prior to that point.
Update: the launch window that they’re gonna need to hit is apparently in 2026. It also sounds like it wasn’t just payload, but some things that Russia had built (that is, Russia was acting as more than a launch provider):
> Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch before 2026 as the European Space Agency ponders a path forward for the mission, including finding a new rocket, replacing Russian-built parts in cooperation with NASA, or restarting its partnership with Russia in case that country’s war in Ukraine ends soon.
Update 2: sounds like there’s a launch window in each of 2024, 2026, and 2028. Not as bad as an earlier article I’d read had made it out to be:
>”The possibility of restarting that cooperation at some future date is available and would be compatible with the launch in 2024,” David Parker, ESA director of human and robotic exploration, said in the same press conference. “More radical reconfigurations of the mission would lead to launches in 2026 or 2028.”
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Everything angers Moscow at this point
The only thing that angers Rogozin is if his funding is cut, but apparently this is not foreseen.
Say it with me Russia : Pariah. State.
Now piss off.
> Aschbacher said last month he is in “intense discussion” with US space agency NASA to get the rover to Mars, adding that he was “very confident that we find a good partnership”.
Um. So, did ESA actually get the payload back from Roscosmos? Because, while I haven’t heard anything about the ESA stuff, Roscosmos said that they weren’t going to give back the British OneWeb satellites that they had physical possession of back.
IIRC, there’s some launch window that has to be hit for reaching Mars, and after that, a long delay until the next launch window, so either ESA has to get it back or have to reconstruct a new one from the plans made for the existing one prior to that point.
Update: the launch window that they’re gonna need to hit is apparently in 2026. It also sounds like it wasn’t just payload, but some things that Russia had built (that is, Russia was acting as more than a launch provider):
https://www.space.com/exomars-mars-rover-europe-russia-ukraine-delays
> Europe’s beleaguered ExoMars rover is unlikely to launch before 2026 as the European Space Agency ponders a path forward for the mission, including finding a new rocket, replacing Russian-built parts in cooperation with NASA, or restarting its partnership with Russia in case that country’s war in Ukraine ends soon.
Update 2: sounds like there’s a launch window in each of 2024, 2026, and 2028. Not as bad as an earlier article I’d read had made it out to be:
>”The possibility of restarting that cooperation at some future date is available and would be compatible with the launch in 2024,” David Parker, ESA director of human and robotic exploration, said in the same press conference. “More radical reconfigurations of the mission would lead to launches in 2026 or 2028.”