NASA 将于 2026 年 10 月 15 日举行媒体电话会议，预览其对 JAXA 火星卫星探测（MMX）任务的贡献，包括 MEGANE 伽马射线和中子光谱仪、由 Honeybee Robotics 开发的表面采样机制以及深空网络支持。MMX 任务计划于 2026 年 10 月 19 日从日本种子岛航天中心发射。
为什么重要. 该简报强调了行星科学领域的国际合作以及NASA在一项旨在从火星的卫星上返回首批样本的任务中的作用，推动对太阳系形成和潜在资源的理解。
Media are invited to join NASA for a media teleconference at 4 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Oct. 15, to preview the agency’s contributions to JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission. The mission is scheduled to launch from JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center in Japan on Monday, Oct. 19 EDT (Tuesday, Oct.
The MMX spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2027 to begin its survey of the Red Planet’s two moons, Phobos and Deimos. After surveying Phobos in detail, the spacecraft will collect a sample of the moon’s surface no earlier than December 2028 and deliver it to Earth in 2031. NASA’s contributions to the mission include the MEGANE gamma-ray and neutron spectrometer, the spacecraft’s surface sam…
Honeybee Robotics, a Blue Origin company, developed the spacecraft’s pneumatic sampler mechanism.
The MMX spacecraft will arrive at Mars in August 2027
deliver it to Earth in 2031
