The head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) V.A.Popovkin and CEO of the European Space Agency (ESA), J.J. Dorden met in Paris and signed an agreement on cooperation on the exploration of Mars and other bodies of the Solar System by robotic means.
The planned cooperation implies the exploration of Mars and Jupiter, as well as the Moon. In the study of Jupiter system special attention will be paid to the study of Jupiter and its surroundings, as well as the Galilean satellites through the project "Laplace-P" carried out by the Russian Space Agency for conducting contact researches on the surface of Ganymede, and the project «JUICE» implemented by ESA for conducting remote researches of the icy satellites of Jupiter.
Sources: http://spb.itar-tass.com
Author: Anna Dorozhkina