Little is know of the Chinese Mars exploration program. While the Moon is the first priority, there are plans for Martian exploration that follow upon the work done in the lunar Chang'e program. China has been studying the necessity and feasibility of Mars exploration since early 1990s as part of the national "863 Planetary Exploration" project, according to Liu Zhenxing, a researcher from the CAS Center for Space Science and Applied Research (CSSAR) Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

The overall plan could have four phases:

• Phase 1 (up to 2009) includes all the preparations before the first mission. This includes international cooperation, definition of exploration goals and projects, and key technologies.

• Phase 2 (after 2009) includes orbiter missions that probe the Martian environment, preparing for future soft-landing missions on Mars.

• Phase 3 would launch spacecraft to land on the red planet, including rovers.

• Phase 4 would establish surface observation stations, develop shuttle vehicles between Earth and Mars, and build bases that robonauts would attend to. The work in this phase would create a foundation for future human flights to Mars and human-tended observing outpost.

Yinghuo-1

On March 26, 2007, the director of the China National Space Administration, Sun Laiyan, and the head of the Russian Space Agency, Anatoly Perminov signed the "Cooperative Agreement between the China National Space Administration and the Russian Space Agency on joint Chinese-Russian exploration of Mars". This include the launch of a Mars probe named Yinghuo-1 scheduled for October 2009. The probe will be 75 centimeters long, 75 centimeters wide and 60 centimeters high. Weighing 110 kilograms it is designed for a two-year mission, according to Chen Changya, a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering. The China National Space Administration (中国国家航天局) is the civilian agency within the Peoples Republic of China which is responsible for national space policy within the space program of China. ... Adjectives: Martian Atmosphere Surface pressure: 0. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Look up September in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Phobos-Grunt (rus. ... Inclination in general is the angle between a reference plane and another plane or axis of direction. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... This article is about several astronomical terms (apogee & perigee, aphelion & perihelion, generic equivalents based on apsis, and related but rarer terms. ... The China National Space Administration (中国国家航天局) is the civilian agency within the Peoples Republic of China which is responsible for national space policy within the space program of China. ... Sun Laiyan (孙来燕, October 1957 in Beijing) is the Administrator of the China National Space Administration (CNSA). ... The Russian Federal Space Agency, formerly the Russian Aviation and Space Agency (RKA) (in Russian: Российское авиационно-космическое аге&#1085...

Chinese Yinghuo-1 and Russian Phobos-Grunt will be sent together to Mars by a Russian Soyuz-2/1b rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome on October, 2009. On Aug.-Sept. 2010 , after a 10 – 11.5 months cruise, Yinghuo-1 separates and enters a 800 x 80 000 km three day equatorial orbit (5° inclination). The spacecraft is expected to remain on Martian orbit for one year. Phobos-Grunt and Yinghuo-1 will conduct Mars ionosphere occultation experiments. Phobos-Grunt (rus. ...

Yinghuo-1 will focus mainly on the study of the external environment of Mars. Space center researchers will use photographs and data to study the magnetic field of Mars and the interaction between ionospheres, escape particles and solar wind.^[1]

Design

• 110 kg
• Power: 90 W (averaged), 180 W (peak)
• HGA 0.9-1 m dish (S-band), 10 W transmitter to 50 m Chinese dish, 2500 bps
• LGA: 80 bps (up/down link),
• 2 x 3 section solar array, total length 5.6 m
• 3 - axis stabilized, solar array perpendicular to the Sun
• Direct communication with Earth

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References

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