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- Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars, and is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. [ 2 ] " Express" originally referred to the speed and efficiency with which the spacecraft was designed and built. [ 3 ]
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Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Mars Express mission is exploring the planet Mars, and is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. [2] "Express" originally referred to the speed and efficiency with which the spacecraft was designed and built. [3]
Jun 2, 2003 · ESA's official Mars Express website features the latest news and status reports on Europe's spacecraft orbiting around Mars. See the latest images of Mars taken by Mars Express' instruments!
Jun 2, 2003 · Mars Express is Europe’s first mission to the Red Planet. It carries eight instruments and deployed a lander, Beagle 2. The lander was lost during its attempt to reach the planet’s surface but the orbiter continues its highly successful on-going global investigation of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
Mars Express, so called because of the rapid and streamlined development time, represents ESA's first visit to another planet in the Solar System. The spacecraft borrowed technology from ESA's Rosetta mission (currently accompanying comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko along its orbit) and the Mars 96 mission.
What is Mars Express? Launched in 2003, the Mars Express orbiter is the European Space Agency’s first mission to another planet and one of the oldest functioning spacecraft beyond Earth orbit. The original mission included both the orbiter and a lander called Beagle 2, but the lander did not work properly once it reached the surface of Mars.
Mars Express is helping to answer fundamental questions about the geology, atmosphere, surface environment, history of water and potential for life on Mars. Mars Express was launched on the 2 June 2003 on a Soyuz-Fregat from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia.
Mars Express is a 3-axis stabilised orbiter with a fixed high-gain antenna and body-mounted instruments, and is dedicated to the orbital and in situ study of the planet’s interior, subsurface, surface and atmosphere.
