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#1 2023-06-15 11:01:54

tahanson43206
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2024 Unnmanned Missions to Mars

This topic is offered for NewMars members who happen upon news reports indicating that a given nation or company is planning a mission to Mars in the 2024 launch window.

As this topic is created, in June of 2023, I am aware of at least two planned missions, but would have to do some investigating to find out what they are.

If there is a member who has the time, please add posts about missions in the firm planning stage.

Time is getting short, so it is unlikely that any missions not already well along in planning will happen.

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#2 2023-06-15 13:13:21

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Re: 2024 Unnmanned Missions to Mars

I asked Google to find missions planned for Mars for 2024.

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642,000 results (0.57 seconds)

Every mission to Mars ever

The Planetary Society
https://www.planetary.org › space-missions › every-m...
The NASA-funded Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers (ESCAPADE) mission will launch in 2024. It consists of twin Mars orbiters that will ...
Missing: unmanned | Must include: unmanned
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2 private companies to race SpaceX to Mars with 2024 flight

Space.com
https://www.space.com › News › Spaceflight
Jul 19, 2022 — Two private companies, Relativity Space and Impulse Space, unveiled plans for the first commercial flight to Mars in 2024 using reusable ...
Missing: omit | Must include: omit

All of the past, present, and future missions to Mars

Digital Trends
https://www.digitaltrends.com › Space › Features
May 30, 2021 — More missions are planned for the 2022 and 2024 launch windows, and there are proposals to put humans on Mars by the 2030s.

NASA releases draft strategy for long-term robotic Mars ...

SpaceNews
https://spacenews.com › nasa-releases-draft-strategy-fo...
Mar 30, 2023 — NASA currently has no other robotic Mars missions in development other than ESCAPADE, a smallsat mission scheduled to launch in late 2024.
Missing: omit | Must include: omit

Future | Mars Exploration Section

NASA (.gov)
https://mars.nasa.gov › overlay-humans
NASA's real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.
Missing: 2024 omit

NASA Mars Exploration
https://mars.nasa.gov
NASA's real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet.

List of missions to Mars

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_missions_to_...
Mission    Spacecraft    Launch Date    Operator    Mission Type    Outcome
1M No.1    1M No.1    10 October 1960    OKB‑1 · Soviet Union    Flyby    Launch fail...
1M No.2    1M No.2    14 October 1960    OKB‑1 · Soviet Union    Flyby    Launch fail...
2MV‑4 No.1    2MV‑4 No.1    24 October 1962    Soviet Union    Flyby    Launch fail...
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Exploration of Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Exploration_of_Mars
The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, ... the 2020s. Mars Orbiter Mission 2 by India, planned launch in 2024.

Mars One mission: a one-way trip to the red planet in 2024

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › science › feb › mars-o...
Feb 9, 2015 — The launch date is still a decade away but preparations are underway for the first human expedition to Mars. Here we explain about the ...
Missing: unmanned | Must include: unmanned

I left the Mars One citation in the list because I had missed the 2024 launch date.

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#3 2023-06-15 14:50:08

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Re: 2024 Unnmanned Missions to Mars

Mars Orbiter Mission 2 also called Mangalyaan-2 is in 2024

Previous mission

With drained battery and no fuel, Mangalyaan bids adieu
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/scien … 962810.ece
The Mars orbiter craft functioned for almost eight years, well beyond its designed mission life of six months.

Future Mars sample-return missions will be the big one, NASA JPL Perseverance started deposit its collected sample for collection, ExoMars program of ESA is behind schedule it was delayed with the Rosalind Franklin rover, ESA was going to use a Russian lander named Kazachok but that was cancelled after sanctions were put on Russia after the invasion of Ukraine. The NASA ESA missions would collect great science but on the current timetable it looks as if China can get there 'first' by simply landing grabbing any kind of sample and returning to Mars. Japan's Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) mission to collect samples of the Martian moon Phobos, technically not 'Mars' itself but very relevant to Mars exploration.

Japanese mission Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) is a Jaxa robotic space probe set for launch in 2024

NASA, ESA, and CNES also participating in the Japanese project, and will provide scientific instruments

https://web.archive.org/web/20210215013 … n/science/

Other possible nations could be the South Korean Space Industry which has arrived on the scene all of a sudden, the South Korea government has set SpaceX as a "role model", striving to develop relatively cheap and reliable rockets, their new rocket has a Payload mass of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) and I have not seen any news of a Mars mission but they did launch a new probe to the Moon using US Private Contractor SpaceX.

Relativity Space and Impulse Space, announced today they are teaming up to launch the first commercial mission to Mars in 2024

The private Relativity Space company is notable for manufacturing most of their Terran 1 and Terran R rocket parts using 3D printing.
https://newmars.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9909
Thomas Mueller is an American aerospace engineer and rocket engine designer, CEO, of Impulse Space, he was a founding employee of SpaceX.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03 … -is-cheap/

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#4 2023-08-30 15:40:58

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Re: 2024 Unnmanned Missions to Mars

I'm still not sure if these missions will launch, it has been difficult to find updates.

Mars Orbiter Mission or MOM 2 a proposed second mission to Mars by ISRO, the Japanese Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) is a robotic space probe set for launch in 2024 and Tianwen-2, formerly known as ZhengHe a planned Chinese asteroid sample-return might make a Mars fly-by, there are questions about European missions after the retirement of launchers and sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.


Japan prepares shape-shifting Moon rover for launch after Indian success
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/ … er-launch/

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#5 2023-09-13 06:45:00

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Re: 2024 Unnmanned Missions to Mars

Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecr … d=MMX-MARS
The current plan is for a launch around September 2024 on the H-3 rocket (currently under development) to arrive at Mars roughly one year later. (The next launch window would open around November 2026.) MMX will first go into orbit around Mars in 2025. After making observations of Mars and its moons from this orbit it will proceed to a Quasi-Satellite Orbit (QSO) around Phobos, from which it will continue observations.

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