Europe okays €1.4bn for Mars rover, ISS

  03 December 2016    Read: 1374
Europe okays €1.4bn for Mars rover, ISS
Europe approved an extra €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) Friday to resuscitate a life-seeking Mars rover project and keep its place on the International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency said.
“All of this together is about €1.444 billion”, ESA director general Jan Woerner told a press conference webcast from Lucerne, Switzerland, at the close of a two-day meeting of the 22-country agency’s ministerial council, pointing to the ExoMars project and ISS.

ESA had sought an extra €400 million from its 22 member countries for the rover, and about a billion euros to prolong Europe’s participation in the US-led ISS.

Ministers approved the funding just six weeks after a €230-million test lander to lay the groundwork for an ExoMars rover, smashed into the Red Planet.

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