Europe Pinning its ExoMars Hopes On Patchwork of Funding Sources

摘要

The European Space Agency (ESA) has found $450 million in likely new sources of funding for its ExoMars missions to Mars, a two-launch effort being hurriedly redesigned with Russia following NASA's pullout, according to an ESA document summarizing the program's status. Few of the funding sources are certain. Some of them require unorthodox methods that will need formal approval from ESA government ministers when they meet in November.