Applications
- 15.4.1 Mars Surface Missions — Designing, operating and exploiting sovereign spacecraft — orbiters, landers and rovers — that characterise the Martian surface, atmosphere and subsurface for science and future resource utilisation.
- 15.4.2 Outer Planet Observers — Sovereign deep-space probes studying the gas and ice giants, their magnetospheres, ring systems and moon environments beyond the asteroid belt.
- 15.4.3 Solar System Sample Return — Designing, launching and operating missions that retrieve physical material from solar system bodies — asteroids, comets, moons or planetary surfaces — and return it to sovereign laboratories for analysis.
- 15.4.4 Astrobiology Probes — Dedicated spacecraft carrying life-detection instrument suites to ocean worlds, Mars subsurface and other high-priority astrobiology targets within the solar system.
- 15.4.5 Asteroid & Comet Science — Deploying sovereign smallsat probes and telescope assets to characterise near-Earth asteroids and comets for science, resource assessment, and planetary defence.