https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/esa-successfully-completes-first-parachute-test-for-2020-exomars-mission/ Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/esa-successfully-completes-first-parachute-test-for-2020-exomars-mission/#comment-1046265 Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:02:31 +0000 http://behindtheblack.com/?p=50921#comment-1046265 Here’s a to-the-point account of how pork distribution takes the better out of ESA’s space ambitions:
https://youtu.be/fUE1_Gwhm3s?t=685
Ideally, you’d ask the Germans to do it all! But they only pay 20% of ESA’s budget, so the others have to somehow make 80% of the mission. So Sweden, well we could at least drop a parachute there (unless it gets shot before landing).

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