David Escudero, Indra Deimos
Historically, Mars missions have been part of large programs with significant resources available. The feasibility of lower-cost missions would be enhanced by the presence of infrastructure building blocks such as transportation systems and telecommunication relay networks, like the Lightship Propulsive Tug and MARCONI service, both under development by ESA. Assuming the future availability of these services, the HARMONIA project addresses the key challenges in designing CubeSats for the Martian environment . The most affected subsystems and their design modifications are explored, while also evaluating the impact of potential orbital scenarios, including SSO, polar, areostationary, general areosynchronous, and low Mars orbits.