
Europe’s Rosalind Franklin rover finally bound for Mars on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy
NASA has awarded SpaceX's Falcon Heavy the launch contract for Europe’s Rosalind Franklin Mars rover, finalizing a decades‑long ExoMars saga with a late‑2028 liftoff and 2030 Mars arrival, and a mission to drill up to two meters into the Martian crust to hunt for organic molecules.