ESA clears Mars Express for construction.
MARS EXPRESS: Matra Marconi Space can start building the European Space Agency's Mars Express planetary orbiter, after top ESA science officials approved the spacecraft's final design. Set for launch in June 2003 aboard a Fregat-Soyuz launcher provided by the Starsem consortium, the spacecraft will...
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