Europe approved an extra 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) Friday to resuscitate a life-seeking Mars rover project and keep its place on the International Space Station, the European Space Agency said.

"All of this together is about 1.444 billion" euros, ESA director general Jan Woerner told a press conference webcast from Lucerne, Switzerland, at the close of a two-day meeting of the 22-country agency's ministerial council, referring to the ExoMars project and ISS.