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AI overview
Mars Express is a spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency that orbits Mars and studies the planet from space. It matters because it helps scientists understand Mars' geology, atmosphere, and potential for past life by gathering detailed images and data about the Red Planet.
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Key facts
- Mission type
- Mars orbiter
- Operator
- ESA
- Cospar id
- 2003-022A
- Website
- exploration .esa .int /mars
- Mission duration
- Elapsed: 23 years and 1 day since launch 22 years, 5 months and 9 days at Mars
- Launch mass
- 1,123 kg
- Dry mass
- 666 kg (1,468 lb)
- Power
- 460 watts
- Launch date
- June 2, 2003, 17:45 ( 2003-06-02UTC17:45Z ) UTC
- Rocket
- Soyuz-FG / Fregat
- Launch site
- Baikonur 31/6
- Contractor
- Starsem
- Reference system
- Areocentric
- Periareion altitude
- 298 km (185 mi)
- Apoareion altitude
- 10,107 km (6,280 mi)
- Inclination
- 86.3 degrees
- Period
- 7.5 hours
- Spacecraft component
- Mars Express
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- orbiter
- Operator
- European Space Agency
- Parent body
- Mars
- Mass
- 71
- Orbital period
- 7.5
- Manufacturer
- Alenia Aeronautica
- Official website
- cosmos.esa.int/web/mars-express
- Image
- Mars Express illustration highlighting MARSIS antenna.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mars Express
- space launch vehicle
- Soyuz-FG
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2003-06-02
- topic's main category
- Category:Mars Express
- start point
- Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 31
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.571
- periapsis
- 298
- apoapsis
- 10107
- orbital inclination
- 86.3
- launch contractor
- Starsem
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Article · 日本語
マーズ・エクスプレス（Mars Express）は、2003年6月2日17時45分 (UTC) に欧州宇宙機関 (ESA) が打ち上げた火星探査機である。ESAとしては初の惑星探査ミッションとなった。
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