MANTIS (spacecraft)

MANTIS (Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy)
Orbital parameters

Mission type	Flyby of multiple asteroids
Operator	NASA


Reference system	Heliocentric


Flyby of multiple near Earth asteroids and main belt asteroids

Discovery Program ← Psyche

MANTIS (Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy) is a mission concept that would flyby 14 asteroids covering a wide range of types and masses, and obtaining remote sensing and in-situ data. This mission would explore the diversity of asteroids to understand the Solar system's history, its present processes, and hazards. The concept was proposed in 2019 to NASA's Discovery Program to compete for funding and development.^[1]

Overview

The MANTIS mission was first proposed to NASA's Discovery program in 2015, and it would have flown by nine asteroids, but it was not selected at that time.^[2] The concept was reformulated and proposed again in 2019.^[1] The MANTIS mission would perform a flyby tour of near-Earth and Main belt asteroids as a means of observing several members of this population of objects, providing discovery science and also returning data that would be complementary and contextual to past, present, and future missions.^[3]

The spacecraft would visit 14 asteroids, and would focus on members of eight known collisional families of different spectral classes and in different parts of the asteroid belt. The largest of these is 50 Virginia, an 85-km asteroid. The current mission concept was formulated by a team composed of scientists from Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and the University of Colorado.^[1]

Proposed payload

The proposed science payload includes four instruments:^[3]^[1]

a narrow-angle camera similar to that on board the New Horizons, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), and Lucy spacecraft
Near-infrared imaging spectrometer similar to the CRISM instrument on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
a mass spectrometer analyzing microsamples shed by asteroids and interplanetary dust particles encountered during cruise.
a mid-infrared camera measuring thermal emission built by collaborators in the United Kingdom.

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "The Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS)." Andrew S. Rivkin, Barbara A. Cohen, Olivier Barnouin, Carolyn M. Ernst, Nancy L. Chabot, Brett W. Denevi, Benjamin T. Greenhagen, Rachel L. Klima, Mark Perry, Zoltan Sternovsky, and the MANTIS Science Team. EPSC Abstracts Vol. 13, EPSC-DPS2019-1277-1, 2019 EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019.
^ Proposals to Explore the Solar System’s Smallest Worlds. Van Kane, The Planetary Society. 27 July 2015.
^ ^a ^b The Main-belt Asteroid and NEO Tour with Imaging and Spectroscopy (MANTIS). Andrew Rivkin, Barbara A. Cohen, Olivier S. Barnouin, Nancy L. Chabot, Carolyn M. Ernst, Rachel L. Klima. AGU Fall Meeting 2018. Washington DC, 10-14 December 2018.

NASA Planetary Missions Program Office

Discovery program

Missions

Main	NEAR Shoemaker Mars Pathfinder Lunar Prospector Stardust Genesis CONTOUR^† MESSENGER Deep Impact Dawn Kepler GRAIL InSight Lucy Psyche VERITAS DAVINCI
Opportunity	ASPERA-3 EPOXI NExT Moon Mineralogy Mapper Strofio MEGANE

Proposals

Finalists	Mission 12 Comet Hopper Titan Mare Explorer Mission 13 and 14 DAVINCI NEOCam VERITAS Mission 15 and 16 Io Volcano Observer Trident
Candidates	Enceladus Life Finder Icebreaker Life ISOCHRON JET LIFE MANTIS Mars Geyser Hopper Moon Diver PADME Phobos Surveyor Whipple

New Frontiers program

Missions	New Horizons Juno OSIRIS-REx Dragonfly

Proposals

Finalists	Mission 2 MoonRise Mission 3 MoonRise SAGE Mission 4 CAESAR
Candidates	CONDOR CORSAIR ELF ELSAH Oceanus SPRITE VICI VISAGE VOX

Solar System Exploration program

Missions	DART JUICE instruments Europa Clipper

Underline indicates active current missions
Italics indicate missions yet to launch
Symbol ^† indicates failure en route or before intended mission data returned

Spacecraft missions to minor planets and comets

Active

New Horizons (multiple flybys)
OSIRIS-APEX (orbiter)
Hayabusa2♯ (lander)
Lucy (multiple flybys)
LICIACube (flyby)
Psyche (orbiter)

Past

Flybys	Cassini–Huygens Chang'e 2 Clementine^† CONTOUR^† Deep Impact EPOXI Deep Space 1 Galileo Halley Armada Giotto Sakigake Suisei Vega 1 Vega 2 International Cometary Explorer NEA Scout^† NEAR Shoemaker Pioneer 7 PROCYON^† Rosetta Stardust Ulysses
Orbiters	Dawn NEAR Shoemaker Rosetta Timeline
Landers	Hayabusa MINERVA^† Hayabusa2 MASCOT Rover-1A / HIBOU Rover-1B / OWL Rover-2^† NEAR Shoemaker Philae
Impactors	Deep Impact DART
Sample return	Hayabusa Hayabusa2 Stardust OSIRIS-REx

Planned

DESTINY+ (multiple flybys, 2024)
Hera (orbiter, 2024)
- AIDA
Tianwen-2 (multiple flybys and sample return, 2025)
MBR Explorer (multiple flybys and orbiter, 2028)
Comet Interceptor (flyby, 2029)

Proposed

ASTER (orbiter, 2021)
Athena (flyby of Pallas, 2022)
Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (flyby, 2023)
Interstellar Express (flybys, 2024)
Centaurus (multiple flybys, 2026–2029)
Chimera (orbiter, 2025)
CORSAIR (sample return)
HAMMER (nuclear impactor concept)
Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper
MANTIS (multiple flybys)
OKEANOS (multiple flybys and sample return, 2026)
World Is Not Enough (spacecraft refueling concept)
Interstellar Probe (flyby, 2030–2042)

Cancelled or
not developed

Probes are listed in chronological order of launch. ^† indicates mission failures.

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Overview

Proposed payload

References