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November 28, 2016

ExoMars space programme needs an extra 400 million euros
Paris (AFP) Nov 25, 2016
Barely a month after its expensive test lander crashed into Mars, the European Space Agency asked member nations Friday to cough up an extra 400 million euros ($425 million) to complete the ExoMars exploration of the Red Planet. The two-part mission saw a spacecraft successfully placed into orbit in mid-October, but a companion lander designed to pave the way for a mobile-lab rover in 2020 smashed into the planet's surface. The aim of ExoMars is to seek evidence of life, past or present. To ... read more

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