Although not necessary, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the state corporation Roscosmos, at an event dedicated to the 54th anniversary of the death of Yuri Gagarin, spoke about the most likely partners in the continuation of the ExoMars mission. Discuss
Remind that earlier the European Space Agency suspended cooperation with Russia on the ExoMars mission, one of the goals of which was to search for traces of extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet.
The head of Roscosmos said that the state corporation still intends to launch. At the same time, it does not matter whether the country will have partners, because, according to Rogozin, Russia is able to do this on its own. But Roscosmos will not refuse potential partners either.
Themselves, or with another partner, which is also being discussed, <…> I do not rule out that instead of the Europeans we will have another partner, it could be a Persian Gulf country or China
Dmitry RogozinRoscosmos CEO