CheMars | Mars Orbiter

CheMars is an orbital geographic and chemical mapper designed as a precursor mission to the MBML Lander. It has a sophisticated chemical and RaDAR suite suited to let us understand Mars like never before. Following in the footsteps of the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, CheMars will use aerobraking to get into a low eccentricity polar orbit. Being fueled by Aerozine-50 also ensures a long service life, letting CheMars collect more data and a deeper understanding of the red planet.

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Science payload

MageX - Magnetometer advanced geophysical eXperiment
Three-part magnetometer

ARC - Aerosol Ranging and Categorisation
LiDAR Aerosol instrument

CAMRON - Context, Albedo, and Mars Realtime Onboard Navigation
wide-angle context and albedo camera

ARCLGY - Artificial Resolution Camera for Light-reflection and Geographical Yield
Ultra high resolution camera

GEMS - Global Emission Measurement Spectrometer
Fourier Transform IR spectrometer

ChIVS - Chemical Infrared-Visible Spectrometer
Visible/IR Spectrometer

URAS - Ultraviolet Reflection and Absorption Spectroscopy
UV Spectrometer

MACHE - Mars Atmospheric Chemical Helio-assisted Experiment
Solar Occultation Imaging spectrometer

RISE - RaDAR Imaging System with Extended aperture
Synthetic Aperture Radar

HADA - High Altitude Dust Analysis experiment
Dust particle analyzer

GrINeD - Gamma ray and Interior Neutron Detector
Gamma ray-Neutron spectrometer

PDAS - Passive Detection Atmosphere Sounder
Microwave sounder

ACSIO - Atmospheric Chemical Sensor In Orbit
Mass spectrometer

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Controls

AG-1: MAG/SAR/UHF/DPA (science payload deployment)
AG-2: Solar array deployment

Orbital insertion engine is staged, and HGA MLI can be attached optionally.

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There are certain things required for integration into a launch vehicle. You first have to drag the command disc into the upper left corner of the editor upon downloading the craft. After loading a craft you would like to integrate CheMars into, you should add an adapter to the payload. In addition to this you can not use CheMars in career as this heavily relies on tinkering. You are free to use CheMars for whatever you desire, however in the case it is used in media we would like Void Aerospace to be credited.

If you have any concern or question you are welcome to ping @VoidAerospace on the JNO Discord server.

Thank you for choosing us for your space exploration!