Space and Ground Facilities Ltd.
Space and Ground Facilities Ltd.
MARIPROBE sensors
SLED-2
instruments
instruments
Mars-96 spaceprobes
The Russian Mars 96 mission was designed to send an orbiter, two small autonomous stations, and two surface penetrators to Mars to investigate the evolution and contemporary physics of the planet by studying the physical and chemical processes in the past and present. The Mars 96 Orbiter was a 3-axis sun/star stabilised craft based on the Phobos design with two platforms for pointing and stabilising instruments.
The Mars 96 Orbiter carried 12 instruments to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars, 7 instruments to study plasma, fields, and particles, and 3 instruments for astrophysical studies. There were also radio science, a navigation TV camera, and a radiation and dosimetry control complex onboard. The instruments were located directly on the sides of the craft, on one of the two platforms attached to the sides of the craft, and on the edges of the solar panels.
Our human resources had been participating in completing three different experiments to study the plasma and magnetic fields. They had developed some onboard software and the EGSEs. The first equipment (MAREMF) would have studied the distribution of electrons around Mars, the magnetic field of Mars and the interaction between the electrons and the magnetic field. The MARIPROB experiment would have examined the parameters of ionosphere of the planet while the third experiment (SLED-2) the high-energy particles of the environment of Mars.
The Mars 96 spacecraft was launched into Earth orbit but failed to achieve insertion into Mars cruise trajectory and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 17 November 1996 and crashed within a presumed 320 km by 80 km area which includes parts of the Pacific Ocean Chile, and Bolivia. The cause of the crash is not known.
The Mars 96 Orbiter carried 12 instruments to study the surface and atmosphere of Mars, 7 instruments to study plasma, fields, and particles, and 3 instruments for astrophysical studies. There were also radio science, a navigation TV camera, and a radiation and dosimetry control complex onboard. The instruments were located directly on the sides of the craft, on one of the two platforms attached to the sides of the craft, and on the edges of the solar panels.
Our human resources had been participating in completing three different experiments to study the plasma and magnetic fields. They had developed some onboard software and the EGSEs. The first equipment (MAREMF) would have studied the distribution of electrons around Mars, the magnetic field of Mars and the interaction between the electrons and the magnetic field. The MARIPROB experiment would have examined the parameters of ionosphere of the planet while the third experiment (SLED-2) the high-energy particles of the environment of Mars.
The Mars 96 spacecraft was launched into Earth orbit but failed to achieve insertion into Mars cruise trajectory and re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere on 17 November 1996 and crashed within a presumed 320 km by 80 km area which includes parts of the Pacific Ocean Chile, and Bolivia. The cause of the crash is not known.
