ArmInfo.The Armenian Aerospace Agency and the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) have signed a memorandum on conducting analog studies of Mars AMADEE-2024. The signing of the document took place within the framework of the National Innovation and Entrepreneurship Week INNO Armenia 2023. The project will be coordinated in Armenia by the National Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Earlier it was reported that in March 2024, a simulation of Mars exploration will be carried out in Armenia. Before the landing of the first people on Mars in the future, the equipment and technical systems will undergo comprehensive tests on Earth. During the missions, materials are tested, analyzes are carried out, and defects in systems are searched for. Training in Armenia will be carried out on a high rocky plateau, which is a kind of geological twin of the Red Planet. The mission crew will consist of 6 people (4 men and 2 women). The mission will last about a month. In general, about 250 scientists, both local and foreign, will participate in the Mars mission. The National Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship reported that Armenia is the 14th country where the simulation is carried out. The choice fell on Armenia due to the fact that the country is a "geological twin" of Mars, and its locations are very convenient for experiments.
As the director of the Austrian Space Forum Gernot Gromer noted, Armenia will be at the epicenter of Mars exploration throughout the year. He expressed hope that the most modern, complex, international modeling of life on the Red Planet will be carried out in Armenia. It should be noted that two panel discussions were held within the framework of INNO Armenia 2023, one of which was dedicated to space, and the second one to the commercialization of scientific inventions in Armenia.
