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Then in March, with Kazachok and Rosalind Franklin ready to go, war intervened.

Most components on Schiaparelli worked faultlessly, and ESA provided—and can reuse—some systems on Kazachok, including its parachutes, radar, radio communications, and the onboard computer.

Problems mating the rover with the Russian-made lander, called Kazachok, delayed the launch by 2 years.

The real losers of the new arrangement are scientists—both Russian and European—who designed instruments to be mounted on the Kazachok lander.

If all had gone to plan earlier this year, the Franklin rover would have launched on a Russian Proton rocket in September before it was lowered to the surface by a Russian powered landing platform called Kazachok in June 2023.