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ExoMars successfully launched -VIDEO

Rome, Italy - Thales Alenia Space, prime contractor of the program, is responsible of the planning of both missions (2016 and 2018)

Thales Alenia Space announced yesterday that Europe’s ExoMars spacecraft was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan using a Proton-M Rocket. After a successful separation from Breeze as expected, a nominal solar panels deployment, ExoMars has sent its first positive “Health check”. Its long journey of almost 500 million km through space has started, aiming for the Red Plane...

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Rome, Italy, 03/15/2016 13:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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