The European Area Company (ESA) introduced on Thursday it’s suspending its collaboration with Russia on a mission to analyze life on Mars.

ESA stated it’s going to now not be working with the Russian area company Roscosmos on the ExoMars rover mission because of the disaster in Ukraine.

In accordance with its web site, ESA’s Director Common Josef Aschbacher has been licensed by the ESA member states to hold out a fast-track industrial research to seek out various choices for implementing the ExoMars mission.

The ExoMars Program includes two missions: the primary — the Hint Fuel Orbiter — was launched in 2016. The second, comprising a rover and floor platform, was initially deliberate for 2018 however has been postpone until 2022.