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Welsh Technology Put to the Test Ahead of Mission to Mars

Summary by wales247.co.uk
Aberystwyth University is supplying emulators of the PanCam and Enfys instruments for trials of a prototype Rosalind Franklin rover in Spain’s Tabernas Desert, ahead of the ExoMars mission’s planned 2028 launch.

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Over the past three weeks, the European Space Agency (ESA) has been testing Charlie, a prototype of the rover Rosalind Franklin, in the Tabernas desert, Almería, Spain, as preparations continue to send the real to Mars, which aims to search for past life signs on the red planet. Charlie mounts the same navigation software and prototypes of the wide-angle and panoramic cameras (PanCam), of the close-up camera (CLUPI), of the spectrometer (Enfys) …

Charlie vehicle was remotely controlled from Italy to validate ExoMars mission navigation systems

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Nation.Cymru broke the news in Wales, United Kingdom on Sunday, October 4, 2026.
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