Micro-gravity test of MMX landing system and corer sampling mechanism (MMX)

research area: astrophysics

experiment title:

Micro-gravity test of MMX landing system and corer sampling mechanism (MMX mission preparation)

experiment acronym: MMX

funding agency: DLR

grant number: -

performing organization:

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)

prime investigator:

Yasuhiro Kawakatsu

experiment objective

abstract

MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) is a mission to explore Martian moons. Mars has two moons called Phobos and Deimos. MMX is planning to collect the surface material of a Martian moon and bring it back to the earth (sample return). MMX is currently under development to be launched by a rocket in middle 2020s.

experiment campaigns

experiment year: 2019
number of drops: 7 (landing/sampling)
number of drops: 3 (fuel sloshing)