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# Airbus to build ExoMars rover's landing platform under ESA contract
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-03-29-airbus-exomars-lander-platform-contract/
- Published: 2025-03-29T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T12:02:18.000Z
- Description: Airbus was selected by ESA and prime contractor Thales Alenia Space to design and build the landing platform for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover. Trade press values the contract at GBP150 million.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [Airbus press release, 29 March 2025](https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-03-airbus-to-design-and-build-esas-exomars-rover-lander-platform?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** Does not confirm the GBP150 million figure, which Airbus's own release does not state.

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