Calathus Mission

Calathus is a proposed student-designed Ceres sample-return mission, that would consist of an orbiter and a lander with an ascent module.

The orbiter would be equipped with a camera, a thermal imager, and a radar; the lander will have a sampling arm, a camera, and a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer.

Mission objective is to return maximum 40 grams (1.4 oz) of Ceresian soil.

[2] Spacecraft should take samples from Occator Crater,[2] that was studied and photographed by NASA's Dawn.

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