Ares (space program): Difference between revisions

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Series of manned Mars missions commanded by the International Space Agency (VOY: "One Small Step")
Three-man missions (VOY: "One Small Step")
- One commander
- Two mission specialists
Specifications
- Two modules
  - Orbital command module
    - LIDAR (VOY: "One Small Step")
    - Trans-spectral imager (VOY: "One Small Step")
  - Landing module
- Third-generation impulse drive (VOY: "One Small Step")
  - Allowed for travel from Earth to Mars in months rather than years (VOY: "One Small Step")
Ares I
- Mission specialist: Verna Mitrios (TLE Novel: Serpents Among the Ruins)
Ares II
Ares III
- Launched: August 2031 (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
- Commander: Lieutenant John Kelly (TLE Novel: The Sundered)
Ares IV
- Launched: August 2032 (VOY: "One Small Step")
- Commander: Lieutenant John Kelly (VOY: "One Small Step")
- Mission specialist: Rose Kumagawa (VOY: "One Small Step")
- Mission specialist: Andrei Novakovich (VOY: "One Small Step")
- October 19, 2032: Command module lost in then-unidentified phenomenon (later identified as a graviton ellipse); John Kelly officially declared dead (VOY: "One Small Step")
Ares V
- Launched: Late October 2032
  - Rushed to launch following loss of Ares IV command module, to recover mission specialists (VOY: "One Small Step")

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 ** Two modules
 *** Orbital command module
-**** [[LIDAR]]
+**** [[LIDAR]] (VOY: "One Small Step")
-**** [[Trans-spectral imager]]
+**** [[Trans-spectral imager]] (VOY: "One Small Step")
 *** Landing module
-** Third-generation [[impulse drive]]
+** Third-generation [[impulse drive]] (VOY: "One Small Step")
 *** Allowed for travel from [[Earth]] to Mars in months rather than years (VOY: "One Small Step")
 * Ares I
+** Mission specialist: [[Verna Mitrios]] (TLE Novel: ''Serpents Among the Ruins'')
 * Ares II
 * Ares III