Kazachok, formerly the ExoMars 2020 Surface Platform, was a planned Russian robotic Mars lander led by Roscosmos as part of the joint ExoMars mission with the European Space Agency. Its name means Little Cossack and is also that of an East Slavic folk dance. A Proton-M rocket was to launch it, and once safely down it would have deployed the Rosalind Franklin rover and begun a one Earth-year investigation of the surface environment at the landing site. The launch was first set for 2020, with landing in mid 2021, and was moved to 20 September 2022 after the entry parachutes failed testing. In March 2022 the European Space Agency suspended cooperation with Russia on ExoMars, and in October 2024 Kazachok was returned to Roscosmos.
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Cancelled Mars lander, part of ExoMars programme
Operated By: Roscosmos, Lead sentence
a planned robotic Mars lander led by Roscosmos
Part Of: ExoMars Program, Lead sentence [part-of]
part of the ExoMars 2022 joint mission with the European Space Agency
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