04/05/2016 (Agence Europe) - 2nd ExoMars mission postponed for two years. Shortly after the successful launch of a first probe to Mars (see EUROPE 11512), the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Russian sister agency, Roskosmos, made an announcement on Monday 2 May, in which it explained that the launch of the second stage of the ExoMars mission (involving a European-led rover equipped with a 2 m drilling arm for exploring life under the Martian soil) would be postponed until July 2020. This...