Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Northern Light is a proposed unmanned mission to Mars that would consist of a lander and a rover being planned by a consortium of Canadian universities companies and organisations. The primary contractor for the spacecraft is Thoth Technology Inc..The spacecraft would consist of four parts: An apogee kick engine to provide orbital injection for a cruise vehicle that carries the Northern Light lander and the Beaver Rover to a direct rendezvous with Mars using a Hohmann transfer orbit.
