1 ExoMars Programmatic situation December 2014 Rolf de Groot Head of Robotic Exploration Coordination Office ESWT#7 meeting, 9-10 December 2014, Altec, Torino

ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use 2 ExoMars programme stabilised in 2013 ESAC

3 ESA – Roscosmos ExoMars Agreement: In force since March 2013 ESA – Roscosmos Joint ExoMars Steering Board (JESB): Objective: oversight of Joint Programme Co-chaired by ESA (Passvogel) and Roscosmos (Shilov / Khailov) Established Spring 2013, met 3 times since Successful constructive meetings, several problems solved Next meeting May 2015 ExoMars – programmatic status with Roscosmos

4 ExoMars - programmatic status with NASA NASA and ESA have drafted an MoU to formalise the NASA contributions to the 2016 mission Electra UHF radio package, Mars proximity link telecom support to EDM, and technical engineering support to EDM. MoU was approved by the ESA Council on 19 March 2014 and signed by Dordain and Bolden and is in force since 29 April 2014 MOU established International Mars Relay Coordination Group with NASA and Roscosmos for coordination among all the orbiting and landed Mars missions in 2016 and beyond. Group is working since Q NASA has agreed to modify the ExoMars TAA between ESA and JPL to include the Russian partners. For 2018 mission, no ESA – NASA MoU necessary

5 Status of ExoMars funding The total estimated cost of the ExoMars programme is 1200 M€ (ec 2008) Before CM2014, M€ was available for ExoMars M€ from subscriptions to the Declaration 97 M€ from the ExoMars financial risk mitigation plan (GSP, StrIn, Science Programme, Entrance fees) At CM2014, an additional M€ (ec 2008) was subscribed IT 47.9, UK 39.7, FR 30, DE 13.5, ES 8.4 Total available funding is now M€ 1144 Allows for continuation of the programme until at least 2016 Some industrial re-organisation required The remaining funding will have to be requested at a future occasion, most likely at CM2016