Armenia will become Mars research center for a month in spring

Armenia will become a Mars research center for one month in the spring of this year, RA Defense Minister Suren Papikyan said at the Armenian Embassy in Austria, where members of the 14th International Simulation to Mars AMADEE-24 received. AMADEE-24 is to be held in cooperation with the Armenian Space Forum and the Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) in Armenia in 2024.

"Ambassador Papikyan happily mentioned in his speech that Armenia will become a Mars research center for one month in the spring. Emphasizing the scientific and educational importance of the AMADEE-24 simulation, the ambassador thanked the Austrian Space Forum for choosing Armenia as the host country.

The Austrian Space Forum (OeWF) has chosen Armenia as the host country for the simulation of a mission to Mars. The AMADEE24 exercises will be held in March 2024.

As part of the simulation, the international crew will train for a month on a rocky high plateau, which in many ways resembles the plateaus on Mars. This will be the 14th simulation carried out by OeWF, during which technologies are tested in order to send a research mission to Mars in the future," a press release by the Armenian Embassy in Austria reads.