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Subject: FW: Roscosmos and ESA will sign a final ExoMars agreement on March 15
From: Subject: FW: Roscosmos and ESA will sign a final ExoMars agreement on March 15
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 21:31:17 -0600
Meeting between the head of Roscosmos and ESA Director-General on the Agreement on Cooperation in the field of space research
22/01/2013 ::
Today, the Russian Space Agency meeting between the head of the Federal Space Agency V.A.Popovkina and CEO of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jean-Zh.Dordena to discuss the results of renegotiation of certain provisions of the draft agreement between ESA and the Russian Space Agency on cooperation in the field of research Mars and other solar system bodies. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the Russian and European space-rocket businesses involved in the implementation of the Agreement.
V.A.Popovkin and JJ Zh.Dorden exchanged information on the progress of the project "EkzoMars" and finally coordinated Russian and English texts of the draft Agreement.
J.-J. Dordain confirmed that the process of approval of the final version of the Agreement on the Council of ESA will begin immediately and completed on March 13-14, 2013. The agreement will be signed at the end of this process, the head of Roscosmos and ESA Director-General March 15, 2013 in Paris.
The press secretary of the head of Roscosmos
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Russia to Sign Final Mars Probe Deal in March
Vladimir Popovkin
14:29 22/01/2013
MOSCOW, January 22 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's space agency Roscosmos and its European counterpart the European Space Agency (ESA) will sign a final agreement on March 15 on the ExoMars project, whose goal is to send unmanned probes to Mars, Roscosmos spokeswoman Anna Vedisheva said on Tuesday.
A meeting took place on Tuesday between the two agencies' managers, Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin and ESA boss Jean-Jacques Dordain, at which the two sides exchanged information about their work on the project and affirmed the final wording of the Russian and English agreement texts.
"The approval process for a final version of the agreement with the ESA council will be completed by March 13-14, 2013. The agreement will be signed following completion of this process by the managers of Roscosmos and the ESA's General Director on March 15 in Paris," Vedisheva said.
The ExoMars project envisages the launch of an orbital probe to Mars and a landing on the Martian surface of a lander module in 2016. A Martian "rover" probe will explore the surface of the planet in 2018.
ExoMars was initially supposed to have been a joint ESA and NASA project, but the US space agency pulled out after the ESA proposed Roscosmos' involvement and said it will not provide its Atlas carrier for the launch.
Russia has repeatedly expressed its desire to join the project, offering to provide Proton carrier rockets for the launches and scientific equipment in exchange for full membership.
ESA's management board approved the project on November 19 and Popovkin and Dordain were due to sign the agreement on November 27 of last year, but the Russians were not happy with its final text. The French Foreign Ministry proposed a series of amendments to "balance" the text out.
© 2013 RIA Novosti
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