Not all doom and gloom-ESA ExoMars Malindi station.

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[I]Away from all the depressing news, some positive news is coming from Malindi for space enthusiasts.The Esa ExoMars ground tracking station in Malindi.
[B]Establishing if life ever existed on Mars is one of the outstanding scientific questions of our time. To address this important goal, ESA has established the ExoMars programme to investigate the martian environment and to demonstrate new technologies paving the way for a future Mars sample return mission in the 2020s.

There are two missions in the ExoMars programme: one comprises the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) plus an Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module (EDM), dubbed Schiaparelli, launch in 2016, and the other, comprising a rover, with a launch date of 2018. Both missions are in cooperation with Roscosmos.

The 2016 ExoMars TGO carries scientific instruments to detect and study atmospheric trace gases, such as methane. EDM contains sensors to evaluate the lander’s performance as it descends, and additional sensors to study the environment at the landing site.

In addition to its prime science mission, the orbiter also carries a sophisticated radio relay capability provided by NASA. The Electra Proximity Payload (Electra) is a telecommunications package that acts as a communications relay and navigation aid.[/B][/I]

[B]14 March 2016: The two-week launch window opens. Lift off from Baikonur is set for 09:31:42 GMT (10:31:42 CET) on a powerful Russian Proton-M launcher, equipped with a Breeze-M upper stage. The separation of TGO and Schiaparelli from Breeze is expected at 20:13 GMT (21:13 CET), and the pair will then be en route to Mars on the initial interplanetary transfer orbit.

For the ExoMars Mission Control Team at ESOC, Darmstadt, a critical moment on launch day will be receipt of the first signals from TGO, expected at around 21:28 GMT (22:28 CET), via the Malindi ground tracking station in Africa. This will enable ESOC to establish full command and control of the craft, and begin a series of critical health and function checks.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/esa_events/17867455271 [/B]

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[ATTACH=full]34027[/ATTACH] The ESA team in Malindi.

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Those buggers will be fucking our slim shady hoez pale club pata pata

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i submitted a late application for team mars .
i would have wished to die there

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If Martians really exist, you’d become a specimen for their experiments. Have you ever wondered if scientists are searching for the wrong signs of life-supporting elements out there in space? Or if there are conditions favourable for other life forms that would be averse to human existence on those other planets? May be we are looking for extinction and not another home. Tutachokoza aliens wakuje kutumaliza. Hehe.

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life in earth terms cannot be supported by mars atmoshere but in the galaxy there are other planets with earth like conditions to support life.
i would mind being made a specimen for advancement of scientific knowledge.
what we(me and those going to mars) wished to do was adventure and colonizing that planet.
the funny thing is those who will go arent coming back.
life exists somewhere else on the planet.
wait until we start moving at the speed of light and we will colonize them

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Or they could colonize us. They could be sophisticated creatures.

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whatever happens it will be a new thing.
their sosphication not withstanding.
humans are inherently curious

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Si wanipatie hiyo dish nitafute Es’hail nayo kuliko waiwaste kutafuta kitu haitapatikana kwa vumbi ya red

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