China is ready to study Mars, Specialists of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) finished assembling the rover, which will go to “Red planet” at 2020 year. Reported “Nplus1” with reference to the Global Times.
As the newspaper writes, planned Martian mission will be the second for China: at 2011 year together with the Russian station “Phobos Grunt” the first Chinese Martian probe was launched into space, however, due to the failure of the on-board computer, both devices were lost. This time in Beijing they hope, that everything will pass normally.
The second mission will include an orbital probe, landing platform and the rover itself. Sending a mission is pre-scheduled for 23 next July. According to calculations, the vehicles will go into orbit in February. 2021 of the year, after which it will land on the planet’s surface, which will be carried out by a platform with a rover located on it, while the orbital probe will remain in orbit and will carry out its program for a year. planned, that the rover will carry out a program to study Mars during 92 days, least. Main theme – studies of the chemical composition of the soil, as well as its distribution. A radar was installed on the rover, capable of collecting soil information at a depth of up to one hundred meters.
As conceived by Chinese designers, rover mass 240 kg will receive energy exclusively through solar panels, without using a thermoelectric generator. This method is less reliable., since the device is vulnerable to dust storms.
Also, plans for the study of Mars were announced at NASA., the rover’s flight is scheduled for July-August next year. Also your rover in 2020 will launch the European Space Agency ESA. Landing platform created for him “Roscosmos”, who had already delivered it to Turin for the final assembly.
