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ExoMars ROVER UPDATE ARTICLE:
Shaking ExoMars

8 April 2013

The structural model of the Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module, or EDM, of ESA’s 2016 ExoMars mission has been subjected to a series of intense shaker tests to simulate the rigours of launching into space.

EDM will be launched to Mars together with the Trace Gas Orbiter and will test key landing technologies in preparation for the 2018 ExoMars rover mission and subsequent missions to Mars.

The orbiter will search for evidence of methane and other atmospheric gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological processes. It will also act as a relay for EDM and the ExoMars rover, which will search the planet’s surface and drill to depths of 2 m, looking for signs of life, past and present.

Before being launched to the Red Planet, each component of the mission must undergo thorough testing to certify it for the journey from Earth to the surface of Mars, and for the harsh space environment.

EDM arrived at ESTEC, ESA’s technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, in mid-February, on a lorry from the Turin facility of Thales Alenia Space in Italy.

After unpacking in one of ESTEC’s cleanrooms, it was subjected to a leak-test, to verify the bio-seal between its main structural elements, the aeroshell, front shield and back cover.

The bio-seal prevents contamination of the inside of EDM from Earth-borne organisms during ground transportation and testing.

After that, EDM has undergone a series of vibration tests on the ESTEC Test Centre Multishaker and QUAD shaker. These intense tests qualify the spacecraft design by ensuring that it will be able to withstand the vibrations it will experience when it lifts off on a Proton rocket in 2016.

During the tests, EDM was mounted on a table where it was shaken up and down or from side to side for several minutes over a frequency range of 5 Hz to 2 kHz.

Afterwards, another leak demonstrated that the bio-seal had not been degraded by the vibration tests.

The EDM structural model has now returned to the Turin factory, where it will undergo further structural testing. This will include tests to simulate entering the martian atmosphere and deploying the module’s parachutes.

At Mars, EDM will hit the atmosphere at 21 000 km/h, decelerating to just 15 km/h in less than 8 minutes.

The ExoMars missions in 2016 and 2018 are being performed by ESA in partnership with Russia’s Roscosmos space agency.

LINK: http://esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Shaking_ExoMars
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #1 on: 04/03/2016 04:19 pm »
Didnt find another 2018 ExoMars thread, so bumping the old one

"RAS Council Meeting on Outer Space December 24, 2015"
http://sovet.cosmos.ru/sessions/2015-12-24

Appears to be Lavochkin presentation about some of the details of EDL subsystems.
" On the progress and plans to work on the contribution of the Russian party in the project "
http://sovet.cosmos.ru/sites/default/files/prez-p4-2-1224.pptx

On the scientific objectives of the project  - Лев Зеленый
http://sovet.cosmos.ru/sites/default/files/prez-p4-1-1224.pptx

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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #2 on: 04/03/2016 08:08 pm »
Is it possible for Russia/ESA to build their own sky-crane? Or is that a NASA-only idea?
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #3 on: 04/03/2016 08:13 pm »
Is it possible for Russia/ESA to build their own sky-crane? Or is that a NASA-only idea?
For ExoMars, the landing platform does not get thrown away, it serves as a science station with multiple payloads.
The mission has no specific need for SkyCrane-like approach
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #4 on: 04/03/2016 09:56 pm »
Is it possible for Russia/ESA to build their own sky-crane? Or is that a NASA-only idea?
For ExoMars, the landing platform does not get thrown away, it serves as a science station with multiple payloads.
The mission has no specific need for SkyCrane-like approach

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #5 on: 04/03/2016 10:53 pm »
Is it possible for Russia/ESA to build their own sky-crane? Or is that a NASA-only idea?
For ExoMars, the landing platform does not get thrown away, it serves as a science station with multiple payloads.
The mission has no specific need for SkyCrane-like approach

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?

Or "Pathfinder on steroids" to paraphrase an old NASA saying.  Before skycranes and airbags, NASA would have considered a path akin to this with a functional lander making a powered descent then letting off a mobile rover; however nowadays NASA could be more 'mission specific' when it comes to its probe designs.

Has Russia given any (preferably translated) details on its lander's instrumentation?
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #6 on: 04/03/2016 11:08 pm »
Is it possible for Russia/ESA to build their own sky-crane? Or is that a NASA-only idea?
For ExoMars, the landing platform does not get thrown away, it serves as a science station with multiple payloads.
The mission has no specific need for SkyCrane-like approach

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?

Or "Pathfinder on steroids" to paraphrase an old NASA saying.  Before skycranes and airbags, NASA would have considered a path akin to this with a functional lander making a powered descent then letting off a mobile rover; however nowadays NASA could be more 'mission specific' when it comes to its probe designs.

A rather dismissive description of an enormously capable mission (more like Phoenix, Insight, and MSL combined). It's nothing like Pathfinder in design, concept, scope, or operation

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Has Russia given any (preferably translated) details on its lander's instrumentation?

Summary on the ExoMars lander page http://exploration.esa.int/mars/56933-exomars-2018-surface-platform/

LaRa   - Lander radio-science experiment
Principal Investigator: V. Dehant (Royal Observatory Belgium)

HABIT - Habitability, brine irradiation and temperature package
Principal Investigator: F.J. Martin-Torres (Luleĺ University of Technology, Sweden)

METEO M - Meteorological package
Principal Investigator: A. Lipatov (IKI, Russia)


METEO-P, METEO-H
(part of the METEO instrument)   Pressure and humidity sensors
Principal Investigator: A.-M. Harri (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland)

RDM (part of the METEO package)   Radiation and dust sensors
Principal Investigator: I. Arruego (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain)

AMR
(part of the METEO instrument)   Anisotropic magneto-resistance sensor to measure magnetic fields
Principal Investigator: M. Diaz Michelena (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain)

MAIGRET- Magnetometer
Principal Investigator: A. Skalsky (IKI, Russia)


WAM - (part of the MAIGRET instrument)   Wave analyser module
Principal Investigator: O. Santolik (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Republic)

TSPP   Set of cameras to characterise the landing site environment
Principal Investigator: I. Polyanskiy (IKI, Russia)


BIP - Instrument interface and memory unit
Principal Investigator: K. Anufreychik (IKI, Russia)


FAST - IR Fourier spectrometer to study the atmosphere
Principal Investigator: O. Korablev (IKI, Russia)


ADRON-EM - Active neutron spectrometer and dosimeter (can work in tandem with the rover neutron detector)
Principal Investigator: O. Mitrofanov (IKI, Russia)


M-DLS - Multi-channel Diode-Laser Spectrometer for atmospheric investigations
Principal Investigator: I. Vinogradov (IKI, Russia)


PAT-M - Radio thermometer for soil temperatures (down to 1-m depth)
Principal Investigator: D. Skulachev (IKI, Russia
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Dust Suite - Dust particle size, impact, and atmospheric charging instrument suite
Principal Investigator: A. Zakharov (IKI, Russia)


SEM -Seismometer
Principal Investigator: A. Manukin (IKI, Russia)


MGAP - Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for atmospheric analysis
Principal Investigator: M. Gerasimov (IKI, Russia)


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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #7 on: 04/03/2016 11:20 pm »
Also, even though debris from the exploded Briz-M did not hit the ExoMars 2016 mission after spacecraft separation, will the problem that caused the Briz-M to explode be fixed by 2018?

Just in case debris COULD hit the ExoMars 2018 mission if the explosion occurs again.
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« Reply #8 on: 04/04/2016 12:36 am »
..will the problem that caused the Briz-M to explode be fixed by 2018?
The venerable Briz-M is always in process of being fixed ;)

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?
Or more like Lunokhod, considering the lander is being built by the same organization that built all Soviet lunar landers
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« Reply #9 on: 04/04/2016 02:14 am »
Also, even though debris from the exploded Briz-M did not hit the ExoMars 2016 mission after spacecraft separation, will the problem that caused the Briz-M to explode be fixed by 2018?

Just in case debris COULD hit the ExoMars 2018 mission if the explosion occurs again.

Its not clear that it did explode or any evidence, part from couple of bits sensationalist reporting, that the 2016 mission was in any danger.
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« Reply #10 on: 04/04/2016 02:32 am »

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?
Or more like Lunokhod, considering the lander is being built by the same organization that built all Soviet lunar landers

A better example would be Chang'e 3/Yutu, whose carrier also carried a significant payload.
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Re: Proton-M launch with ESA ExoMars Rover - 2018
« Reply #11 on: 04/04/2016 09:26 am »
..will the problem that caused the Briz-M to explode be fixed by 2018?
The venerable Briz-M is always in process of being fixed ;)

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?
Or more like Lunokhod, considering the lander is being built by the same organization that built all Soviet lunar landers

Not sure where you get that idea as far as I know the rover is being built in the UK.

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« Reply #12 on: 04/04/2016 10:00 am »
..will the problem that caused the Briz-M to explode be fixed by 2018?
The venerable Briz-M is always in process of being fixed ;)

So, basically, the ExoMars rover is a hybrid of NASA's Phoenix and Spirt/Opportunity missions?
Or more like Lunokhod, considering the lander is being built by the same organization that built all Soviet lunar landers

Not sure where you get that idea as far as I know the rover is being built in the UK.

Both are correct. The English built rover will be lowered from the lander built by Laovchikin.  ;)
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« Reply #13 on: 04/04/2016 07:21 pm »
Both are correct. The English built rover will be lowered from the lander built by Laovchikin.  ;)

Even that needs extra clarification, as locomotion system of the rover is built by MDA in Canada. Airbus plant in Stevenage, UK is the final assembly and test site. Oh, and lander is part Italian, radar and avionics and control systems.
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« Reply #14 on: 04/05/2016 04:07 am »
Has Russia given any (preferably translated) details on its lander's instrumentation?

There is also this http://exploration.esa.int/science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=55699 (8 MB) document
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« Reply #15 on: 04/05/2016 04:31 am »
Vestnik NPO Lavochkina N2 2014 (Vol 23) (official company magazine in Russian),
"Scientific objectives of the scientific equipment of the plafrorm project EXOMARS-2018" pp.13-21
By L.Zelenyi and others   
http://www.laspace.ru/upload/iblock/334/3340d3dbc30b6b5de220d09e7210ea04.pdf
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« Reply #17 on: 07/28/2016 01:14 pm »
https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=40046.msg1563582#msg1563582

Roskosmos has issued two tenders for Proton-M rockets. Both are for 2018 at 1,633,347,620 ruble a piece. One is for Exomars № 2.
http://www.zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/common-info.html?regNumber=0995000000216000036
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« Reply #18 on: 08/06/2016 02:33 pm »
Could somebody fix a title - mission shifted to the right to 2020 :)
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« Reply #19 on: 08/23/2016 10:16 am »
Just spent 10 days in Labakh with the HABIT team testing a prototype https://atmospheres.research.ltu.se/index.php/2016/08/09/daily-report-from-habit-field-site-testing-team-within-the-nasa-spaceward-bound-india-2016-programme/ - HABIT is the little green box in the second photo.

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