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Mars Express en route for the Red Planet

2 June 2003

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Mars Express, launched on 2 June 2003, at 23h45 (local time) on board a Soyuz-Fregat rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Credits: ESA/STARSEM-S. CORVAJA 2003

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There in time for Christmas

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Beagle 2 lander leaving the Mars Express Orbiter

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The Beagle 2 lander, to be carried on ESA's Mars Express, is equipped with a suite of instruments designed to look for evidence of life on Mars.
The Soyuz/Fregat lifts off on 2 June 2003 with ESA's Mars Express. Europe's first mission to the Red Planet leaves Earth when the positions of the two planets make for the shortest possible route, a condition that occurs once every twenty-six months. The intrepid spacecraft will start its six-month journey from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan onboard a Russian Soyuz/Fregat launcher.

Credits: ESA 2001. Illustration by Medialab.

Getting to know Mars – inside and out

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The Beagle 2 lander, to be carried on ESA's Mars Express, is equipped with a suite of instruments designed to look for evidence of life on Mars

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The Mars Express orbiter.

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Mars Express launch replay

Rollout - the story in pictures Mars Express – ESA sets ambitious goals for the first European mission to Mars ESA's Mars Express ready for launch Mars Express leaves for Baikonur