Schiaparelli en route to Baikonur
Date: 19 December 2015
Copyright: Thales Alenia Space
This video shows the departure from Turin-Caselle airport (Italy), on Sunday 20 December at 17:00 CET, of an Antonov cargo plane carrying the ExoMars Schiaparelli entry, descent and landing demonstration module, and ground support equipment.
Schiaparelli is en route to Baikonur, via Moscow.
Launch of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli, on a Russian Proton rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, is scheduled for 14 March, at the start of a launch window that remains open until 25 March.
Last Update: 1 September 2019