Classification:
Lander spacecraft carrying surface rover.Mission:
Analyze Martian soil and atmosphere.Features:
Pathfinder is a low-cost mission with a single flight system to be launched in December 1996 or January 1997 aboard a Delta rocket for a Mars landing in July 1997. The spacecraft will enter the atmosphere directly from its transfer trajectory, and will analyze the atmosphere on the way in. It will carry a small rover, which will perform technology, science, and engineering experiments on the surface of Mars.Stabilization: Spin stabilized.
See also the Mars Pathfinder Home Page.
