いよいよ10月16日にSchiaparelli と TGO（Trace Gas Orbiter）が火星を目の前にしてそれぞれの任務に就くため分離します。
ExoMars 2016 Missionの開始となりますね～
着陸準備の状況は、こちらです。
SchiaparelliのEDLのアニメは、こちらです。
分離直後のビデオ ：http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57431-exomars-2016-tgo-and-schiaparelli-approaching-mars/
EDLのビデオ ：http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58407-schiaparellis-descent-to-mars/
下表は、ExoMars 2016 Missionのタイムラインです。
10月19日に、TGOが火星軌道へ投入され、Schiaparelliが着陸します。
着陸は、19日の14:42 UTC（23時42分 JST） に火星大気突入です。
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ExoMars 2016 Timeline |
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| Launch [1] | 14 March 2016 at 09:31 UTC |
| Testing NASA radio transponder | Early April |
| Commissioning of Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) instruments | Up until 6 weeks after launch |
| Commissioning of Schiaparelli instruments | Up until 6 weeks after launch |
| Checkout of TGO instruments [2] | 12-16 June |
| Checkout of DREAMS and DECA [3] | 15-17 June |
| Cruise phase | Up until end June |
| Deep space trajectory manoeuvres Largest engine burn [4, 5] |
Mid July – mid August 2016 28 July |
| Navigation measurements (delta-DOR) | September – October 2016 |
| Start of 24/7 ground station contact with TGO | 9 October 2016 |
| Schiaparelli – TGO separation | 16 October 2016 |
| TGO performs Mars avoidance manoeuvre | 17 October 2016 |
| TGO insertion into Mars orbit | 19 October 2016 |
| Schiaparelli lands on Mars | 19 October 2016 |
| Schiaparelli science operations | 19 - 23 October 2016 |
| TGO changes inclination to science orbit (74°) | 17 January 2017 |
| Apocentre reduction manoeuvres (from the initial 4-sol orbit to a 1-sol orbit) |
December 2016 |
| Aerobraking phase (TGO lowers its altitude to 400 km circular orbit) | January 2017 – November 2017 |
| TGO science operations | December 2017 – December 2019 |
| TGO starts data relay operations to support NASA landers on Mars | December 2017 |
| Superior solar conjunction (critical operations are paused while the Sun is between Earth and Mars) |
11 July - 11 August 2017 |
| Start of the TGO data relay operations to support communications for the rover mission and for the surface science platform |
April 2021 |
| End of TGO mission | December 2022 |
分離した後のEDLのタイムラインです。http://exploration.esa.int/mars/57465-exomars-2016-schiaparelli-descent-sequence/
Schiaparelliのカメラがどのような風景を撮影してくれるかも興味ある処ですね。
http://exploration.esa.int/mars/58412-schiaparelli-readied-for-mars-landing/
