The first custom spacecraft of mine:The HAMS spacecraft!HAMS, or the High-Altitude Mars Surveyor, is a custom spacecraft i came up, with a launch date in 2013.
After cruising towards Mars, the HAMS spacecraft inserts itself into a initial, low Mars orbit, for a total of 1 week. This orbit will serve as a test phase for the Outer Martian Moon Twin Search Cameras (the OMMO-TiSCs), which will attempt to detect any outer Martian moons at an altitude of over 50 thousand km.
After the 1 week testing period has passed, the spacecraft will cruise towards periapsis, and do an Holmann Transfer burn, using the Steven Hawking Ion Propulsion (SHIP) engine. HAMS will insert itself into a near-circular orbit, and will orbit Mars between 600 and 1200 Mm (600 thousand to 1.2 million km) above its surface, for 10 years. Just after the transfer burns had finished, the Martian Magnetometer (MarMag) will activate, observing, studying, and analysing the distant parts of Mars's magnetic field.
HAMS would had detected, at least, 5-10 outer Martian moons during the 10 year period.
After the 10-year period has passed, in the mid-2020s, HAMS will insert itself into a high inclination, even more distant, and unstable orbit around Mars, going up to 3 million km from Mars. Its orbital lifespan is a little less than 3 years, so to avoid space debris, in mid-2027, over 13 years and a half years after the mission began, and 2.5 years after entering the unstable orbit, HAMS will execute one last burn, and destroy itself in the Martian atmosphere, while narrowly avoiding the Martian surface, to avoid contaminating any possible life in the red planet.
- HAMS today, over a million kilometers from Mars
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