EXOMARS Mission and Spacecraft Architecture

摘要

The ExoMars Mission is the first ESA led robotic mission of the Aurora Programme approved by the ESA Council at ministerial level on 6 December 2005 and combines technology development with investigations of major scientific interest. ExoMars will search for traces of past and present life, characterise the Mars geochemistry and water distribution, improve the knowledge of the Martian environment and geophysics, and identify possible surface hazards for future human exploration missions. ExoMars will also validate the technology for safe Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) of a large size spacecraft on Mars, the surface mobility and the access to subsurface. The ExoMars project is presently undergoing its Bl phase with Alcatel Alenia Space-Italy as Industrial Prime Contractor.