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CTOnews.com, March 14, according to Russian news agency TASS, Eurasia Times and other media reports, India will carry out a new mission to explore Mars with Russia, and a team of scientists in Moscow are working with experts from India to develop the Martian unmanned aerial vehicle "Marsoplane", which will help humans study the Martian atmosphere and surface.

It is reported that Yelena Karpovich (Yelena Karpovich), a researcher in charge of universal and aerodynamic design of drones in the project at the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Moscow State University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, provided detailed information about the project to the Tass news agency. She said that the Marsoplane verification machine will carry out technical verification before the end of 2024.

"the Mars rover was designed by an international team of computational fluid dynamics experts from the Indian Institute of Technology at Karagpur," Karpovich said. She pointed out that the project uses the concept of a "fixed-wing air platform", which is likely to keep pace with the current Mars research probe.

It is said that the new Mars mission, jointly developed by IIT Kharagpur of the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is part of a deepening space cooperation agreement signed between India and Russia in 2021. The agreement, signed on December 6 of that year, aims to strengthen cooperation between ISRO and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.

Research on the Mars vehicle began in April 2022 after funding from the Russian Science Foundation was approved. Karpovich believes that the team of scientists will be able to successfully complete the technical verification of the aircraft by the end of next year. "by the end of 2024, the Russian side must publish 10 articles to build and successfully test the technology verifier."

Tu Yuan Pixabay pointed out that the main difficulty of the project is the specific conditions of the Martian climate and atmosphere, and drones must be prepared to deal with problems such as the red planet's rarefied atmosphere and sandstorms.

"the specific conditions of the Martian atmosphere complicate the design of an effective lifting surface and limit our choice of power plants. Sandstorms require thorough design of protection measures for systems and equipment, as well as flight design for aircraft with less wing loads."

In addition, the researchers added that it was necessary to find a way to place the drones on the nose cone of the launch vehicle. "for this reason, our drones must be very compact or have a folding or soft structure design (inflatable or self-hardening wings)."

According to reports, the relevant research team actively consulted a number of enterprises and scientific research institutions in Russia's domestic space rocket industry. In particular, the research mission of the project is being developed jointly with the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, she said.

"at present, together with experts from the Space Institute, we continue to discuss the research mission of drones and their related equipment and flight profiles, as well as areas worth studying on Mars. scientific tasks include climate, mineralogy and thermophysics, as well as the study of the Martian magnetic field."

The Lavochkin Design Bureau advises the research team on the specifications of equipment and power plants that can be used in outer space, "which takes our work to a completely different level of science and engineering," she added.

It is worth mentioning that last month, the United States and India also announced that they would strengthen space cooperation and strengthen cooperation in civil space. For example, the United States issued a statement that it would train an Indian astronaut at the NASA Johnson Space Center. However, the White House did not specify the timing and details of the "advanced training." Before that, Indian astronauts had been relying on Russia for training, and some Indian Air Force pilots were sent to the Gagarin Astronaut training Center in 2020.

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