LAUNCH / Falcon Heavy
ExoMars 2028 Rosalind Franklin Rover
Planned for October 2028 · Provisional
Planned with Falcon Heavy from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA. Dates may change.
Source: Launch Library 2 / The Space Devs · Last successful recall: 29 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC. Older data status – not successfully updated for more than two hours.
Date and mission
- Date according to source
- Planned for October 2028
- Status according to source
- Provisional
- Rocket
- Falcon Heavy
- Launch provider
- SpaceX
- Launch Site
- Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Launch Platform
- Launch Complex 39A
- European reference
- European participation · foreign launch provider
- Payload participation
- European Space Agency
- Source last changed
- 16 Apr 2026, 17:23 UTC
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Spaceflight News API ↗ · Retrieved: 29 Oct 2026, 20:13 UTC
Original source description (English)
ExoMars 2028 is a second mission of two-part European Space Agency astrobiology project to search for evidence of life on Mars. The primary objective is to land the rover at a site with high potential for finding well-preserved organic material, particularly from the very early history of the planet. The rover is expected to travel several kilometers during its mission. The European rover will be the first mission to combine the capability to move across the surface and to study Mars at depth. It will collect samples with a drill down to a depth of 2 m and analyze them with next-generation instruments in an onboard laboratory. Underground samples are more likely to include biomarkers, since the tenuous martian atmosphere offers little protection from radiation and photochemistry at the surface.
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