Ideas of Russian Mars-96 design used in European Mars-express project

Posted by tourdemars to Mars Express at January 26, 2004 12:00 PM

The ideas in the design of the Russian Mars-96 space vehicle, lost in 1996 on its way to orbit, were used in the European Mars-Express project, said Vasily Moroz, department chief at the Space Research Institute and one of the Mars-96 designers, at a press conference in Moscow on Monday.