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ExoMars TGO reached Mars orbit while EDM situation unders assessment: the mission's result predicted today

Rome, Italy - The elements necessary to understand the condition of things

The Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) of ESA’s ExoMars 2016 has successfully performed the long 139-minute burn required to be captured by Mars and entered an elliptical orbit around the Red Planet, while contact has not yet been confirmed with the mission’s test lander from the surface. TGO’s Mars orbit Insertion burn lasted from 13:05 to 15:24 GMT on 19 October, reducing the spacecraft’s speed and directi...

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Rome, Italy, 10/20/2016 13:31
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