China Reaches For the Red Planet.

China Reaches For the Red Planet.

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The China National Space Administration and the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) signed a formal agreement in March that will allow China to send a small satellite called the CDP-I to Martian orbit, piggybacking on the Phobos-Grunt orbiter. According to Alexander Zakharov of the Space Resear...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 44, 8 (2007).
Main Author: Digregorio, B.E
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CDP-I satellite.
China National Space Administration.
Hong Kong Polytechnic Institute.
Martian atmosphere.
Martian orbit.
Moscow.
Phobos-Grunt orbiter.
Roscosmos.
Russian Federal Space Agency.
Space Research Institute.
Deep-space tracking system.
Gas-chromatograph system.
Plasma field.
Soil elements.
Thermal differential analyzer.