Mars MetNet
Planned science mission to Mars featuring semi-hard landing strategy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mars MetNet is a planned atmospheric science mission to Mars, initiated by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) and under development by Finland, Russia and Spain. By September 2013, two flight-capable entry, descent and landing systems (EDLS) have been manufactured and tested. As of 2015 baseline funding exists until 2020. As of 2016, neither the launch vehicle nor precursory launch date have been set.
Mission type | Technology Atmospheric science |
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Operator | Finnish Meteorological Institute |
Website | http://fmispace.fmi.fi/index.php?id=metnet |
Spacecraft properties | |
Landing mass | entry mass: 22.2 kg per unit[1] |
Payload mass | 4 kg allocation |
Dimensions | Impactor: 1.8 m diameter[2] |
Power | 0.6 W[1] |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | TBD |
Rocket | TBD |
Mars impactor | |
This article needs to be updated. (March 2022) |
The objective is to establish a widespread surface observation network on Mars to investigate the planet's atmospheric structure, physics and meteorology. The bulk of the mission consist of at least 16 MetNet impact landers deployed over the Martian surface.