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#RosalindFranklin

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🚀 SPACE
🔴 Europe’s Long Journey to Mars Faces Another Delay

🔸 ESA’s $1.3B ExoMars rover will now ride an Airbus-built lander in 2028.
🔸 Mission hit by 20 years of delays: NASA exit, Russia ties cut, COVID, parachute failures.
🔸 NASA rejoins, offers descent engine, RTGs & launch.

#Mars#ExoMars#ESA

Whose project is this?

Let me put it differently: Who pays for it and who will take the heat if the project fails to deliver the #RosalindFranklin rover to the surface? Will we then see titles like, "Airbus crashes lander on Mars"? Certainly not.

So, #ESA, do your job and render to C̶a̶e̶s̶a̶r Airbus the things that are Airbus's and to G̶o̶d̶ ESA the things that are ESA's, meaning, size and place logos properly, and provide information on funding.

esa.int/Science_Exploration/Hu

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Airbus entwickelt und baut die Rover-Landeplattform ExoMars der ESA
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"Airbus wurde von der .. ESA + Thales Alenia Space (TAS) - ein Joint Venture von Thales .. + Leonardo ..-, dem industriellen Hauptauftragnehmer von ExoMars, mit dem Bau von Schlüsselsystemen für den ExoMars-Lander beauftragt, der den Rover Rosalind Franklin sicher auf der Oberfläche .. absetzen wird."

29.3.2025

airbus.com/sites/g/files/jlcbt

#Airbus#ESA#ExoMars
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@gutenberg_org It should be noted that the mistakes in the structure of #DNA made by #LinusPauling were partially due to him only looking at sketches of the X-ray diffraction data collected by #RosalindFranklin (drawn by his nephew who was working with #JamesWatson and #FrancisCrick ).

#Pauling could not travel from #CalTech to #England because his passport had been revoked by the #US #StateDepartment for his #AntiNuclear (atmospheric testing) protests. CalTech also fired him!

NASA & ESA kooperieren um Europas Rover auf dem Mars zu landen,
gaben am Donnerstag bekannt, dass sie Vereinbarung zur Ausweitung der NASA-Arbeiten am #ExoMars-Rover Rosalind Franklin unterzeichnet haben. Von ESA geleitete Mission soll 2028 starten & nach Anzeichen von früherem Leben auf dem Roten Planeten suchen. Pressemitteilung NASA. Bild: ESA/Damien Dos Santos #RosalindFranklin
raumfahrer.net/nasa-und-europa