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Brief Introduction of Promoting the Chinese Program For Exploring the Martian System

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 March 2015

Jinsong Ping
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of China, CAS email: [email protected]
Xian Shi
Affiliation:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
Nianchuan Jian
Affiliation:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
Sujun Zhang
Affiliation:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS
Mingyuan Wang
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of China, CAS email: [email protected]
Kun Shang
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatory of China, CAS email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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Following the progress of Chinese deep space exploration step, since 2006 we started a Mars mission, Yinghuo-1, by join in the Phobos-Grunt mission of Russia. A satellite bus platform and onboard payloads as well as an innovative open-loop radio tracking system have been developed by mission team. Also, together with Russian and German colleagues, we developed a kind of in-beam tracking method for measuring the rotation and nutation of Phobos, and developed the 1st Phobos global gravity field for the mission. We are promoting the Chinese new mission for Mars exploration. Although the joint YH-1 & Phobos-Grunt mission failed, the new techniques and knowledge developed by mission teams may benifit the future missions. In fact, the open-loop technique have been applied into lunar and other planetary missions, and the method in developing Phobos global gravity field will be used in the study of Rosetta mission and future Chinese mission for small body.

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