Launched 2016
Active missionExoMars 2016
The ExoMars 2016 mission comprises two spacecraft, an orbiter and a lander, launched together in March 2016. The Trace Gas Orbiter will detect and monitor trace gases in the martian atmosphere from an approximately 400 km orbit. The lander, Schiaparelli, is an entry, descent, and landing demonstrator module designed to test out technologies necessary for future lander missions. ExoMars is a European Space Agency program undertaken in conjunction with Roscosmos. An anomaly in the navigation system caused Schiaparelli to free fall the final 3.7 km, which it could not survive. ESA's account of the May 2024 solar superstorm at Mars, fetched on 2026-09-02, describes the Trace Gas Orbiter as one of its two Mars orbiters in the present tense.
- Agency
- ESA · Roscosmos
- Destination
- Mars
- Trajectory
- Trajectory unavailable
- Orbiter
- Lander
- Technology Demonstrator