Europe relaunches its mission to Mars, with the support of NASA. The United States will supply the rocket, as part of a new partnership with the European Space Agency.
ExoMars, a program which has experienced many vicissitudes since its launch in 2001, should have taken off in September 2022, aboard a Russian rocket (Proton) from the Baikonur space base, in Kazakhstan. However, the establishment of sanctions against Russia, following the invasion of Ukraine at the end of February 2022, led Moscow to suspend its space cooperation with Europeans.