ExoMars | Back on track for the Red Planet

A year has passed since the launch of the ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover mission was put on hold, but the work has not stopped for the ExoMars teams in Europe.
In this programme, the ESA Web TV crew travel back to Turin, Italy to talk to the teams and watch as new tests are being conducted with the rover’s Earth twin Amalia while the real rover remains carefully stored in an ultra-clean room.
The 15-minute special programme gives an update on what happened since the mission was cancelled in 2022 because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the plan ahead, the new challenges, the latest deep drilling test and the stringent planetary protection measures in place.
ESA’s Rosalind Franklin rover has unique drilling capabilities and an on-board science laboratory unrivalled by any other mission in development. Its twin rover Amalia was back on its wheels and drilled down 1.7 metres into a martian-like ground in Italy - about 25 times deeper than any other rover has ever attempted on Mars. The rover also collected samples for analysis under the watchful eye of European science teams.
ESA, together with international and industrial partners, is reshaping the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Mission with new European elements, including a lander, and a target date of 2028 for the trip to Mars.
The newly shaped Rosalind Franklin Mission will recover one of the original objectives of ExoMars - to create an independent European capability to access the surface of Mars with a sophisticated robotic payload.
More information: www.esa.int/ExoMars
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[@HLLTAF]

I’ve been playing mars horizon, and I love it! It’s got me thinking… you guys did a great job with that game

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Glad you liked it! 😊

[@mateusnicolinibezerra9757]

Let's goooo I want you guys to win the new space race :DDD much love from Brazil

[@techwizard8214]

I love ESA a lot 💝💝💝

[@MarsChroniken]

Good to see Rosalind Franklin back on track! Thank you for the update!

[@mortenlund1418]

Best wishes. Great video. Thanks.

[@ImieNazwiskoOK]

Good quite sad with the delay but well, with more things to be added while later it might make the mission more interesting.

[@Anna33888]

ESA, Thank you that you make us dream for a better world!

[@WiwatChang]

Best of luck ESA

[@EuropeanSpaceAgency]

Thank you!

[@mdnght_crttr]

Much ❤ from Germany. Nothing is as faszinating as space exploration and I want us to add on and combine expertise all around the globe rather than seeing us in a "space race". A space race always means several organizations running for one particular goal against each other and the winner eventually takes it all. What a waste if resources for the "losers" right? And what a waste of valuable time for human progress in space. That's why I'm so happy with this Mars program and actually all ESA missions in general, including the setbacks. We do our work beyond the outdated idea of space race. We want to take part in all humanities' biggest adventure instead.

[@Faoladh777]

Interesting I thought the rover was in Southampton or Portsmouth in the UK at the Airbus Facility

[@ptonpc]

Save flight Rosalind Franklin and ESA. Strange to think the chances are I will be long dead by the time Rosalind Franklin gets to Mars.

[@zapfanzapfan]

I hope they test the drill at proper temperatures too.

[@thomasgunther]

So somebody is driving a Corvette in Italy (9:37)?! Isn't that heresy? I find this almost more amazing than rovers being sent to Mars.

[@llovenature]

thanks you this video

[@marc.w.7692]

weil es liebe ist

[@user-lq6si2ny1e]

A wonderful project suffered because of the war.

[@cosmozon]

The story with the rover stretches back to the beginning of the 90s, the plan implied back in 1994 to send both penetrators and the rover, but Russia already then began to disintegrate and degrade and for 30 years science has almost exhausted itself since there are only speculators and there is no development.

[@TheQDeathNick]

11:16 what protocol they use to connect?

[@EmileVictor]

indico.esa.int/event/62/contributions/2797/attachments/2307/2667/1235_-_mission-operation-services---future-trends_Presentation.pdf

[@FutureAIDev2015]

So basically the questions we're trying to answer are: 1. Is there life anywhere else? 2. If so, where is it? 3. If not, why?

[@SwordQuake2]

6 year delay because of a deranged madman...

[@lovro4744]

Sad to think the the whole europe space community isnt able to get founding and doesnt have the drive to accomplish something that Nasa does every couple of years. We need to change how innovantive industrys works in eu to stay competive on the global stage.

[@pile333]

2028 because some more improvements will be added? Ok, 2024 I too near, but also 2026?

[@DC2022]

you don't build, test and qualify a brand new lander ex nihilo in few months.

[@rajatde2348]

I like 🌌🚀 Venus is my favorite🌍 Space is my curiosity I will travel space🚀🌌

[@rajatde2348]

Thank u 💕dear God bless you❤💕

[@DiRECs]

So who decides that there never was any life on Mars? Are we going to be drilling deeper and deeper for the next 100 years? Life is too rare and fragile to keep it just on Earth. Let it spread.

[@stevenbaumann8692]

😊👍🏻❤️

[@tlumme]

ESA's Rosalind Franklin is meant to last 70 sol days on mars .. ill bet Rosalind has its own mind *I will last 7000+ days* on mars :D

[@javant6993]

ESA: we now plan to en- Literally everyone: * signs petition for mission extension *

[@agirlonrust7351]

i am an artist and would like to gift you my new creation man in the moon. Would i get an answer if you received it?

[@zapfanzapfan]

Shouldn't have involved Russia in the first place...

[@user-ly1sx8ci8z]

B

[@evivox]

Terrible that politics is placed above science, which concerns all of humanity

[@mawkernewek]

Maybe Russia can build their own rover and launch that at the same time on their platform. Perhaps they could both have little laser pistols and start the first war on Mars. Though hopefully the actual war on Earth will be over by then.

[@DC2022]

they have troubles to even build 50 old tech so building their own rover?... Yeah, in 20 years.

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

I don’t get it everything was perfect until you people decided to postpone it permanently until 2028. I was really up for you people until you decided to give up. The war of Ukraine and Russia does not affect the European Union. To be honest with you I’m not friends with Ukraine, but I am sort of friends with Russia because they have a space program. By the time the rover gets there, it will be already too old.

[@lennart3046]

What is wrong with you?

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

@@lennart3046 what’s wrong with you people?

[@lennart3046]

@@Wadethewallaby2001 nice to know you are okey with onjustiable war

[@Wadethewallaby2001]

@@lennart3046 ?

[@tankourito5419]

​@Wade Warner Shut up you little beta boy.