Paris – “The European Space Agency’s operations center has confirmed that the insertion into Martian orbit of the Trace Gas Orbiter wass successful. So we can already rejoice in the success of this part of the mission, with its payload of scientific instruments. We must instead have a little patience to know the present situation of Schiaparelli. The data received so far are not conclusive fact. But whatever the final outcome, it was a test case for the technologies with which they will have to complete the second part of the mission in 2020. “So said astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, in an interview with la Repubblica, in which she stressed that Expomars mission shows that we can set foot on the Red Planet even though” it will not be my generation to get there, but the next. “(9Colonne)
