NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Launch Time
Mon Mar 14, 2016 09:31 UTC

First European Mars mission launched by Proton.

Rocket

Proton-M/Briz-M
Roscosmos
Status: Active
Price: $65.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 10,027 kN
Payload to LEO: 21,000 kg
Payload to GTO: 6,900 kg
Stages: 4
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 58.18 m
Fairing Diameter: 4.35 m
Fairing Height: 15.26 m

Mission Details

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos. A key goal is to gain a better understanding of methane (CH
4) and other trace gases present in the Martian atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological activity.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 3,738.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit

Schiaparelli EDM

Schiaparelli EDM was a failed Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM) of the ExoMars programme—a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian space agency Roscosmos. It was built in Italy and was intended to test technology for future soft landings on the surface of Mars. It also had a limited but focused science payload that would have measured atmospheric electricity on Mars and local meteorological conditions.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 577.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit

Location

Site 200/39, Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan

Stats

2016

17th orbital launch attempt

Proton-M

97th mission
2nd mission of 2016
86th successful mission
7th consecutive successful mission