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Russia-Ukraine war means mankind not going to Mars this year, warn global space agencies

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Russia and Ukraine means that mankind will probably not go to Mars this year, space agencies have warned.Both NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed that co-operation will continue with their Russian counterpart Roscosmos, with which they work on projects including the International Space Station.But a project that has suffered as a result of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict is the ExoMars mission that is meant to see a European lander carried to Mars on board a Russian spacecraft.

But a statement from the ESA made it clear that this is now unlikely to happen, with the statement saying: “Regarding the ExoMars programme continuation, the sanctions and the wider context make a launch in 2022 very unlikely.” The arrival of the lander – named Rosalind Franklin – on the red planet had been scheduled for 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic caused it to be delayed.

Mars missions are only able to launch approximately every two years or so because they require the plants to be aligned in a specific way which makes the journey more efficient.

That means that if a launch doesn’t take place this year, then it will have to wait until 2024. To stay up to date with all the latest news, make sure you sign up to one of our newsletters here. ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher did not give any indication of the space agency’s general plans but condemned the war.

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