ExoMars Industry Team Readies Contract Proposal

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The industrial team leading Eu rope's two-part ExoMars mission with NASA will submit a contract proposal in January valued at around 550 million euros ($753 million) for approval by the European Space Agency (ESA), the program manager for prime contractor Thales Alenia Space Italy said Nov. 24.rnThe 18-nation ESA has already spent nearly 200 million euros on the design and early development phases for Exo Mars, which is a deep collaboration with NASA on missions set for launch in 2016 and 2018.