April 3, 2019
Kazachok surface platform
The Kazachok platform arriving in Turin, Italy, in March 2019
The Kazachok surface platform is being supplied by the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKI, Институт Космических Исследований) and Roscomos, the Russian federal space agency. It weighs 827 kg and accommodates 10 Russian instruments and 2 European instruments (with no French contribution). The platform will measure environmental parameters and radiation levels for at least one Earth year.
| Instrument | Description |
| LaRa (EU) | Lander Radio-science experiment (geodesy, rotation and orientation of Mars) Principal Investigator: V. Dehant (Royal Observatory of Belgium) |
| HABIT (EU) | Habitability, brine irradiation and temperature package Principal Investigator: F.J. Martin-Torres (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden) |
| METEO-P, METEO-H (EU) (part of the METEO instrument) | Pressure and humidity sensors
Principal Investigator: A.-M. Harri (Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland) |
| RDM (eu) (part of the METEO instrument) | Radiation and dust sensors
Principal Investigator: I. Arruego (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain) |
| AMR (eu) (part of the METEO instrument) | Anisotropic magneto-resistance sensor to measure magnetic fields Principal Investigator: M. Diaz Michelena (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Spain) |
| MAIGRET | Magnetometer. Principal Investigator: A. Skalsky (IKI, Russia) |
| WAM (eu) (part of the MAIGRET instrument) | Wave analyser module Principal Investigator: O. Santolik (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Republic) |
| TSPP | Set of cameras to characterize the landing site environment Principal Investigator: I. Polyanskiy (IKI, Russia) |
| BIP | Instrument interface and memory unit
Principal Investigator: K. Anufreychik (IKI, Russia) |
| FAST | IR Fourier spectrometer to study the atmosphere
Principal Investigator: O. Korablev (IKI, Russia) |
| ADRON-EM | Active neutron spectrometer and dosimeter (can work in tandem with the rover’s neutron detector)
Principal Investigator: O. Mitrofanov (IKI, Russia) |
| M-DLS | Multi-channel Diode-Laser Spectrometer for atmospheric investigations
Principal Investigator: I. Vinogradov (IKI, Russia) |
| PAT-M | Radio thermometer for soil temperatures (down to 1-metre depth) Principal Investigator: D. Skulachev (IKI, Russia) |
| Dust Suite | Dust particle size, impact and atmospheric charging instrument suite
Principal Investigator: A. Zakharov (IKI, Russia) |
| SEM | Seismometer. Principal Investigator: A. Manukin (IKI, Russia) |
| MGAP | Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for atmospheric analysis
Principal Investigator: M. Gerasimov (IKI, Russia) |
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