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Europe’s Earth Return Orbiter reaches design maturity
![Earth Return Orbiter around Mars](https://www.esa.int/var/esa/storage/images/esa_multimedia/images/2024/07/earth_return_orbiter_around_mars/26212900-1-eng-GB/Earth_Return_Orbiter_around_Mars_card_full.png)
ESA’s Earth Return Orbiter, the first spacecraft that will rendezvous and capture an object around another planet, passed a key milestone to bring the first Mars samples back to Earth.