The Board of Governors of the European Space Agency (ESA) has decided to terminate cooperation with Roscosmos on the ExoMars program. This was announced by the director general of the agency Josef Aschbacher.

“Today, the ESA Board discussed the rover and lander of the ExoMars mission, recognizing that the circumstances that led to the suspension of cooperation with Roscosmos - the conflict in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed in this regard - continue to prevail,” he wrote on his Twitter account. - As a consequence, the board instructed me to officially end the currently suspended cooperation with Roscosmos on the rover and the ExoMars platform. New ideas on how to move forward with other partners will be presented at the media briefing on July 20, details to come."

The press service of Roscosmos said that they have not yet received official notification from the ESA about the termination of cooperation on ExoMars. But now, in any case, the Russian space department will have to agree on the return of the Kazachok landing Martian module to its homeland.

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