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Mission to Mars on schedule for 2020
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CHINA’S ambitious program to launch a mission to Mars is “well under way,” its top planner said yesterday, with a probe scheduled to carry 13 types of payload, including six rovers, to the planet in 2020.
Zhang Rongqiao, the mission’s chief architect, said: “The payloads will be used to collect data on the environment, morphology, surface structure and atmosphere of Mars.”
Zhang was speaking at yesterday’s opening of the Beijing International Forum on Lunar and Deep-space Exploration.
A Long March-5 carrier rocket will blast off from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in the tropical island province of Hainan.
Once the probe is in orbit around Mars after a journey which will last seven months, a lander will separate from it and touch down in the red planet’s northern hemisphere.
It will then deploy rovers which will explore the planet’s surface.
In July, China successfully launched the Long March-4B, its first X-ray space telescope to study black holes, pulsars and gamma-ray bursts.
And in April, the country’s first cargo spacecraft completed its docking with an orbiting space lab — a key development in China’s goal to have its own crewed space station by 2022.
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