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Kremlin Palace “Welcome to … Russia also promotes its own ambitious program”
‘Failure and bad luck’ in Russia’s Mars exploration tests since the 1960s
(Moscow = Yonhap News) Correspondent Yoo Chul-jong = The pride of Russia, who fought a fierce space competition with the United States in the former Soviet Union, when the United States settled on Mars, the fifth Mars exploration rover ‘Personality’ at 18 (local time) Wounded.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on 19: “All successes in space development are human assets and should be welcomed,” to a question from his country’s reporters who asked Russia’s position on the success of the landing.
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“The countries that operate the space program are in a competitive state in a good way, and this competition is a very efficient engine for development in many cases,” he said. “Don’t forget that Russia is also promoting its own ambitious program for space development. It is done,” he added.
The United States showed a calm appearance and congratulated the success of its successive exploration of Mars, but looking back at the history of Russian exploration of Mars, which was plagued with failures and misfortunes, it seems that past space powers are not comfortable.
The United States once again showed its space technology to the world with the establishment of Perseverance.
NASA has completed 20 exploration missions since it first sent the Mariner probe to Mars in 1965, and managed to land the ninth Mars since Viking 1 in 1976.
On the other hand, the only Russian spacecraft that managed to partially land on Mars was the Mars-3 probe launched in 1971.
In the 1960s, the former Soviet Union, which faced fierce space competition with the United States, also focused on exploring Mars.
Former Soviet genius rocket developer Sergei Korolev had already pursued a Mars exploration program before Yuri Gagarin conducted humanity’s first space flight in 1961.
However, the initial six attempts to send a probe to Mars ended in failure.
Meanwhile, the Mariner, an American probe that was launched in 1964 and managed to fly near Mars the following year, surprised Russia when the first image of Mars was transmitted to Earth.
However, Soviet scientists did not give up.
As a result, the Russian ‘Mars-2’ and ‘Mars-3’ probes launched in 1971 were difficult to reach Mars.
But, again, luck did not follow.
Mars-2 crashed into a sandstorm during landing and Mars-3 began transmitting data after landing on the surface of Mars, but communication was cut off after just 14.5 seconds.
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Even after the partial success of Mars-3, unhappiness continued in Russia’s attempts to explore Mars.
The ‘Mars-96’ probe, launched in 1996, failed to enter flight orbit at the beginning of the launch and crashed, and the ‘Povos-Grund’ launched in 2011 also suffered a similar fate.
On the other hand, the United States continued its successful march.
Vikings 1 and 2 launched in 1975 managed to land on Mars the following year, sending them images of Mars by transmitting them with Earth until November 1982 and April 1980, respectively.
In 1996, the US also managed to send the first Mars rover (exploration robot) ‘Sojourner’ to Mars.
In 2003, the twin ‘Spirit’ and ‘Operity’ rovers were sent to Mars, and in 2012, another ‘Curiocity’ rover landed on Mars.
Russia, enduring a long humiliation and seeking an opportunity to restore its pride, sent a probe called ‘Exomes’ with the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2016 to explore life on Mars, but it also failed.
The probe was unable to adjust the landing speed and exploded when it hit the surface of Mars.
Russia plans to send another lander and rover to Mars as an extension of the Exomes program with ESA in 2022 for a resurgence.
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