Europe Suspends Joint Mars Mission with Russia

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the devastating effects of the war that has been going on for about three weeks continue to affect the whole world in many areas of life. Thousands of people lost their livesThis war, in which cities are bombed, innocent people ‘without their lives’ even if they survive, they have to flee their countries and homes, is also in almost every sector. sanction decisions brought it with it.

The world’s giant companies in the sectors ended their services in Russia, offices in the country were closed, product sales were stopped. In other words, while the war stopped life in Ukraine with bombs, a difficult process began for the Russian people with the sanctions of companies and institutions. Of course, from all this The scientific world was also adversely affected.

European Space Agency suspends joint Mars project with Russia

Previously, it has come to the fore that NASA and Roscosmos astronauts and cosmonauts are currently conducting joint studies on the International Space Station; In fact, a video shared by a Russian media organization became the agenda and created controversy. Now, in the shadow of the ongoing discussions, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that it has suspended the Mars project called ExoMars, which it carries out jointly with Russia.

In a statement made by ESA, “Meeting in Paris on 16-17 March, ESA’s Executive Council evaluated the situation arising from the war in Ukraine regarding ExoMars. On the ExoMars rover mission to be unanimously launched in 2022 The current impossibility of carrying out the ongoing cooperation with Roscosmos was accepted and the ESA Director General was informed about the cooperation activities in line with the decision taken. instructed to take appropriate steps to suspend” was stated.

The statement, which states that the work continues to eliminate the problems related to this rover mission, which is one of the important steps taken regarding Mars, also said:Following Roscosmos’ decision to withdraw its personnel from the European Spaceport in French Guiana, All missions scheduled to be launched by Soyuz have been suspended” expressions were used.

Two space agencies with the ExoMars program, on the surface of Mars astrobiological data such as water, traces of life would work on it. After these explanations, what kind of processes the task will go through and how it will be implemented is not clearly known at the moment.