MMX to Martian moons, JAXA/CNES collaboration Options

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Before looking at JAXA's Jupiter mission I thought Martian moons sample return mission may be of interest to some people. I will translate
ISAS dcument on this mission and here are the first two pages (no page number on this document and page numbers are mine).

The document is question can be found here.
http://www.isas.jaxa.jp/topics/files/MMX170412.pdf

and the first two pages are as follows.


Page 1

Martian Moons eXploration (MMX)

Outline of Martian moons sample return mission (JAXA/ISAS)

Collaboration agreenment and signing ceremony with French CNES on 10 April(Mon) 2017 at JAXA Tokyo office


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Sample return mission and its space science and exploration schedule

This sample return mission has been, within the current space science/exploration timetable, designated as leading to "Strategic medimum
scale project 1" and its launch is scheduled for fiscal 2024.

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The English version of the above presentation.

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How selection has been made (gist only)

• Reasons for selection within ISAS

• It has been designated as one of the promissing missions within the planetary science community
(ISAS analysis of response from the Planetary Society (RFI)）

• Evaluation of the Martian ST exploration feasibility study and adherence to the government space programme
fundamentals and timetable

• Strategic solar system exploration and programmebility study

・Programmebility study points of view

• Evaluation of AO proposal and boundary conditions

• What is RFI?

• ISAS views on respective field of space science and associated objectives and strategy, November 2014

• Timeline and Request for Information

• RFI response deposited with ISAS as a proposal by the Planetary Society,
1 February 2015

• Landmark objective CHASE-PBEE for the next 20 years of solar system exploration

• Medium sized proposals put forward with a view to launching one within the next 10 years and the Martian
moon SR being one of them

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CHASE-PBEE

• Largest objective in 100 years of planetary science

• Planetary systems leading to life

・Origin of planets and their evolution

• Condition for life on planets and universality

・Speciality

Continuous HAbitable Solar System Environment

• In comliance with other countries's objectives

• Target for next 20 years of solar system exloration

• Pre-life evolution in solar system and birth of bioshpere

・Clarificatio of sustainability conditions

PreBiotic Environment Evolutions

• Pre-life environment = astronomical(in broadest sense) environment for organic reaction network in absence of
life

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