Malfunction threatens Exomars mission on Mars

The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that Exomars was facing a parachute system problem that could delay its launch on Mars in the summer of 2020 and reach Mars by 2021 if the experts do not do not solve quickly.

Europe and Russia are involved in the mission, which is to send a European probe on Mars to dig in search of traces of previous life. The Russian "Proton" carrying the probe to destination, but a problem appeared in the landing system parachutes may delay these dates.

The European Space Agency said that in August, an experiment on the big umbrella failed. It had been preceded by an experiment at the end of May. Four umbrellas in the skies over Sweden also failed and tore two of the umbrellas. European team François Spotto: "The whole team is ready for the timed competition."

Engineers study the cause of the problem. If no solution can be found before the US skies of November-December 2019, the decision to postpone will be the case. Another experience in February is also a success. "Both experiments have to work," he said, "otherwise we will not launch a device into space that will not work well."

The United States is the only country in the world to have successfully investigated and managed Mars. European experts can ask the help of their American colleagues in this regard.

In 2016, the first part of the Exomars mission failed, as Europe failed to land on Mars the Sciabarelli experimental probe, which collapsed at high speed and crashed. is crushed, while the unmanned TGO was successfully climbing around the orbit of the red planet. And space agencies are forced by certain dates to launch flights to Mars, moments when its orbit is close to that of the Earth.

Europe launched a probe on the surface of Saturn's Titan in 2005, and in 2014, it achieved a unique success by landing the Velay probe on the surface of Comet Chori.