Idefix (rover)
Martian moons lander
Idefix (rover)
Idefix is a rover developed by the French space agency CNES and the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in cooperation with the Japanese space agency JAXA for the planned Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission to Phobos, a moon of Mars. The rover is designed to land on Phobos and explore its surface before the MMX spacecraft lands on the moon and collects samples for return to Earth. Idefix was launched with the MMX spacecraft on 19 October 2026. Idefix is a ~23 kg, solar-powered rover carrying a suite of instruments for surface and regolith investigations: the RAman spectrometer for MMX (RAX), a miniaturized infrared radiometer (miniRAD), and imaging systems that include a pair of navigation cameras and two downward-facing WheelCams to observe wheel-soil interactions. The rover is a Franco-German development in cooperation with JAXA. DLR developed the structure, locomotion and thermal instruments, and CNES developed cameras, avionics, power, and communications. The rover is designed for at...
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