It's still yellow on what happened to the lander Schiaparelli, who was supposed to touch the soil of Mars yesterday at 16:58 Italian time, and from which at the time was not yet received any signal. The technicians of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany, have worked through the night to the telemetry collected from Tgo satellite, orbiting the red planet. At 10 there was a press conference to present the results of their analysis. -
The lander Schiaparelli "entered the Martian atmosphere. Its heat shield worked properly. It opened the parachute to correct altitude. Then the data indicate a behavior does not exactly as we expected. But all the hardware of the lander has behaved properly ". -
The ExoMars mission was "still a success because his goal was to have a probe in orbit and a test can provide scientific data and knowledge, and we have data and knowledge": it was said the Director General of the European Space Agency ( Esa), Jan Woerner, in the press conference organized by ESA and broadcast live streaming. "The good news is the confirmation that the orbiter of the ExoMars mission, the Tgo, is operating successfully with the orbit of Mars, which means that it is ready to take over scientific data and to release them. The Tgo - he added - is a milestone for the second phase of the mission, expected in 2020 ". -
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