Date set for British-made rover to land on Mars in search of life on Red Planet
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The UK Space Agency has set a date for a for British-made rover to land on Mars in search of life on Red Planet.
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The Rosalind Franklin rover was initially scheduled to land on Mars in 2023 as part of a European Space Agency (ESA) mission.The rocket-powered system designed to ferry the rover to Mars' surface had been being built by Russia's space agency Roscosmos - but was cancelled by the ESA following the invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
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TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say The project has received expertise from scientists at host of British institutions - including the universities of Aberystwyth, Bradford, UCL, Leicester - and RAL Space and Teledyne E2v.And now, the agency has finally set a date for the heavily delayed mission - 2028 - after Nasa gave it the green light.The US agency said it had selected SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket to launch...
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