Here ' s the press release this article is based on . The ESA is planning a similar mission in 2020 , which doesn ' t leave much time for an engineering overhaul . I ' m amused how the same people who think that SpaceX will build scientifically valuable mission to Mars in 2018 think that 2020 is not much time for an engineering overhaul . Besides all they need to do is a software fix , including testing I doubt it would take more than 2 weeks . And this is the mission that was delayed from 2020 , so they have additional 2 years on top of what was scheduled to analyse telemetry from Schiaparelli and implement necessary fixes . mission planners stand a good chance of correcting the anomalyA good chance ? If they managed to reproduce it then it ' s guaranteed to be fixed . There ' s still an open window for other possible issues , if there are any , but there ' s no question whether this one issue will be fixed or not .