20/10/2016 (Agence Europe) – At 10.00am on Thursday 20 October, the European Space Agency (ESA) provided a rather mixed initial report of the ExoMars mission. Although the Russian-European Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) probe correctly entered the orbit of Mars, there have been no signs of life from the Schiaparelli landing demonstrator module(see EUROPE 11512). The Mars Express probe and the Indian radio-telescope in Pune lost contact with Schiaparelli at the same time, despite the fact that the...