Concept portrayal of China’s Mars rover and lander released on August 23, 2016 by lunar probe and space project center of Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. China Daily/via REUTERS
China unveiled for the first time the designed external appearance of its Mars voyager which is expected to be launched around 2020.
The voyager is designed to include the orbiting, landing and roving missions within itself.
Chief designer of China’s first Mars exploration mission, Zhang Rongqiao, said that the voyager consists mainly of three parts – one as the orbiter and the other as the landing capsule with still another as the rover inside the latter.
Zhang added that the orbiter will have remote sense on Mars while in orbit.
Zhang Rongqiao said, that China has attained a lot of experience and technology in manned and unmanned space missions and that the country should make full use of its moon exploration in its Mars mission.
But what makes the Mars mission different from all previous missions lies in the unknown factors around and on Mars itself, according to the chief designer.
“We need a combination of different deceleration mechanisms in our Mars exploration mission. The key is how to coordinate them which we’re not quite sure for now. It poses a tricky question to our mission.”
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