Mars 96 Mission Description Index

Note: Materials presented in this Web site were drawn from Mars '94 descriptions and recent (early 1995) Mars '96 documents provided by Russian, French, and American sources in support of the Mars (Balloon) Relay Implementation and Operations Planning Group (IOPG). For more information, see the Mars '96 Russian Flight Mission Home Page

        A short version of this index.
    SClENCE OBJECTIVES OF THE MARS-96 MISSION
    MISSION DESCRIPTION

      Launch and Trans-Mars Injection
      Cruise
      Small Station Release and Orbiter Deflection Maneuver
      Orbit Insertion
      Orbit Correction
      Penetrator Release
      Orbital Operations
      Other Relevant Mission Information

    ORBITER SPACECRAFT INFORMATION

      Orientation
      Downlink data capacity
      Data transmission rate from the Martian orbit
      Active lifetime
      Preliminary mass characteristics (kg)

    ORBITER PAYLOAD - SURFACE AND ATMOSPHERE

      ARGUS Stereo-Spectral Imaging System
      HRSC Multifunctional High Resolution Stereoscopic TV-Camera
      WAOSS: Wide-Angle Stereoscopic TV-Camera
      OMEGA - Visible And Infrared Mapping Spectrometer
      PFS - Planetary Fourier Spectrometer
      TERMOSCAN - Mapping Radiometer
      SVET - High-Resolution Mapping Spectrophotometer
      SPICAM - Multichannel Optical Spectrometer
      UVS-M - Ultraviolet Spectrophotometer
      LWR - Long-Wave Radar (Grunt And Plasma Experiments)
      PHOTON - Gamma-Spectrometer
      NEUTRON-S - Neutron Spectrometer
      MAK - Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer

    ORBITER PAYLOAD - SPACE PHYSICS/PLASMA

      ASPERA-S - Energy-Mass Ion Spectrograph and Neutral-Particle Imager
      FONEMA - Fast 0mnidirectional Non-scanning Energy-Mass Analyzer
      DYMIO - Omnidirectional Ionospheric Energy-Mass-Spectrometer
      MARIPROB - Ionospheric Plasma Spectrometers
      MAREMF - Electron Analyzer and Magnetometer
      ELISMA - Wave Complex
      SLED-2 - Low-Energy Charged Particle Spectrometer

    ORBITER PAYLOAD - ASTROPHYSICS AND CRUISE

      PGS - Precision Gamma Spectrometer
      LILAS-2 - Cosmic and Solar Gamma-Burst Spectrometer
      EVRIS - Stellar Oscillation Photometer
      SOYA - Solar Oscillation Photometer
      RADIUS-M - Radiation/Dosimetry Control Complex

    SMALL STATIONS

      MIS - Meteorology Instrument System
      DPI - Descent Phase Instrument System
      APX - Alpha-particle, Proton and X-ray Spectrometer
      OPTIMIZM - Seismometer, Magnetometer, and Inclinometer
      PanCam - Panoramic Camera
      DesCam - Descent Camera

    PENETRATORS

      TV-camera
      MEKOM - Meteorological package
      PEGAS - Gamma-ray Spectrometer
      ANGSTREM - X-ray Spectrometer
      ALPHA - Alpha-Proton Spectrometer
      NEUTRON-R - Neutron Spectrometer
      GRUNT - Accelerometer
      TERMOZOND - Thermoprobes
      KAMERTON - Seismometer
      IMAP-6 - Magnetometer

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