Mercury Lander: A New-Frontiers-Class Planetary Mission Concept Design

From planetary exploration goals to technology requirements

“…The resulting mission concept(Ernst et al, 2020) achieves one full Mercury year (~88 Earth days) of surface operations, based on a launch in 2035 with a landing on Mercury's surface in 2045. All technical requirements are described in the report and are now being discussed in conferences(Kubota et al 2021).…”