Day 25: 05 April 2024
How time does fly! With a heavy heart we say Good Bye to our test site in Armenia, overlooked by the majestic Mount Ararat. We will now start packing our equipment, rovers and spacesuit-simulators. Our thanks go out to our partners and sponsors end everyone involved in the mission! (c)OeWF

Day 24: 04 April 2024
An EVA (extravehicular activity) is always a team effort: our analog astronauts working outside the habitat wearing the spacesuit simulator, their colleagues assisting with donning and doffing and operating OPS inside the habitat during EVA to monitor vital signs, GOST team members ensuring safety of analog astronauts in action. (c)OeWF

Day 23: 03 April 2024
Have you ever tried to solve a complex mathematical problem while wearing a spacesuit? Well, our analog astronauts Robert Wild and Carmen Köhler did just that. During an EVA they were unexpectedly given a mathematical problem and other riddles they had to crack within 20 minutes. This was part of the experiment “Pressure” from the Neuropsychology and Experimental Psychology Lab at University of Cádiz, Spain. Robert and Carmen had no computer or calculator with them and instead radioed the analog astronauts in the habitat for assistance. It was a crew-stress-simulation that required the analog astronauts to keep their cool and rely on their good communication skills and logical thinking.  (c) OeWF/JudithKuemmel

Day 22: 02 April 2024
Analog astronaut Inigo Munoz Elorza testing MEROP, a device from Instituto Superior Técnico
University of Lisbon, Portugal to remote control rovers outside the habitat. MEROP features two interaction levels: Semi-autonomous teleoperation and direct teleoperation. Semi-autonomous teleoperation offers indirect control of the robot using a virtual avatar and interface augmentation techniques. Direct teleoperation allows for the direct control of the rover to enhance situational awareness.  (c) OeWF

Day 21: 01 April 2024
Taking photos of the analog astronauts during an EVA and during isolation is quite a challenge. Our mission photographer found the perfect solution: a tiny camera-drone. His photos help us to reach out to the public and make our Mars analog missions more tangible. (c) OeWF/Dirk Raiser

Day 20: 31 March 2024
Analog astronaut Robert Wild working on GeoPrep, a geological experiment from the Institute of Geology, Mineralogy and Petrology, University of Innsbruck/Austria. With this workbench he can fine-cut and polish rock samples gathered during EVAs and analyze them on the spot. (c) OeWF

Day 19: 30 March 2024
Are we already there? Well, nearly 😉 Our analog astronauts took a picture of the habitat’s surroundings through the protective goggles of RAMAN spectrometer experiment. The result is indeed very Martian. (c)OeWF

Day 18: 29 March 2024
Morning briefing! Flight Director Willibald Stumptner and Remote Science Support Team Lead Seda Özdemir-Fritz joining forces to get this show on the road! MSC is fully staffed with team members from Flight Control Room: Contacts, Records, Procedures, FD, FDA, EarthCom, Human Factors and Biomedical Engineers and all the other MSC-Team: Remote Science Support, Flighplan and Media. (c)OeWF/Tommy

Day 17: 28 March 2024
To ensure the fidelity of our Mars Analog Mission, the AMADEE-24 habitat was built in a remote valley in Armenia. Here’s a bird’s eye view. The habitat is the elongated structure on the right, the two orange spots on the left are the Gebrüder Weiss containers that were used to bring our valuable spacesuit prototypes and rovers to Armenia. The analog astronauts can only leave the habitat wearing the spacesuit prototype. (c)OeWF/vog.photo

Day 16: 27 March 2024
Our GOST Team (Ground Operations and Support Team) keeps the analog astronauts safe during their EVAs. They check the paths the analog astronauts are planning to take beforehand for dangerous obstacles and follow them (unseen by the analog astronauts mind you) during EVAs. Last but not least they repair and recharge rovers at night. (c) OeWF/DirkRaiser

Day 15: 26 March 2024
Analog astronaut Robert Wild and iROCS rover Cosmo from university of Applied Sciences Upper Austria out and about on EVA to pave the way for future crewed Mars missions! (c) OeWF /DirkRaiser

Day 14: 25 March 2024
Mission Support Center in Vienna is fully staffed and ready to support our analog astronauts on simulated Mars. (c) OeWF

Day 13: 24 March 2024
Analog Astronauts Anika Mehlis and Simone Paternostro working on #ENEA s Hort3Space, a robotic green house that will soon deliver microgreens to pimp our analog astronauts’ diet. (c) OeWF

Day 12: 23 March 2024
Exploring the rain-soaked landscapes of Armenia with two analog astronauts on EVA, utilizing quad bikes to simulate Mars surface activities. The future of space exploration relies on innovative tools and technologies, like robotic vehicles, to support human missions beyond Earth. (c) OeWF/vog.photo

Day 11: 22 March 2024
Team members of the AMADEE-24 Mission Support Center with Seppie, the octopus and popular MSC mascot. Early in the morning before the morning briefing, we sent positive and motivating vibes from the MSC team to our teams in Armenia. After the briefing, the team members focus on their tasks for the day. (c) OeWF

Day 10: 21 March 2024
Our analog astronauts Carmen Koehler and Iñigo Muñoz Elorza on site in Armenia. Both climb a hill in the Caucasian mountains in the AOUDA spacesuit simulator. AMADEE-24 moves us closer to understanding the scope of the biggest adventure of our generation: Humans exploring Mars! (c) OeWF/Juliya_ArmSpaceForum

Day 09: 20 March 2024
What a view! The AMADEE-24 test site is located in the Ararat Basin of the Lesser Caucasus mountains where the Eurasian tectonic plate collides with the Arabian tectonic plate. The habitat is located at less than 50 km from Mount Ararat, a volcano for which a damaging eruption has been recorded in 1840. (c) OeWF/Juliya_ArmSpaceForum

Day 08: 19 March 2024
Safety training on site in Armenia. In addition to our analog astronauts, all GOST team members must also train on the AOUDA spacesuit simulator. In case of an emergency, everyone must be able to remove the helmet from the suit within 30 seconds. (c) OeWF/vog.photo

Day 07: 18 March 2024
Analog astronaut Thomas Wijnen is checking the Staying Alive experiment in the habitat on site in Armenia. The experiment, by the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity, University of Bremen, deals with the revitalising component of the Life Support System (LSS) in a habitat in form of a photo-bioreactor. (c) OeWF/vog.photo

Day 06: 17 March 2024
Analog astronaut Simone Paternostro in the AOUDA spacesuit simulator for #AMADEE24 in Armenia, paving the way for human Mars missions. The Austrian Space Forum is the only organization in Europe – and one of only four worldwide – to develop spacesuit technology for human Mars missions. (c) Juliya_ArmSpaceForum

Day 05: 16 March 2024
The AMADEE-24 Mars simulation is directed by our OeWF Mission Support Center in Vienna. Inside the Flight Control Room, Alessandro Frigeri from the Remote Science Support Team (RSS) carefully discusses and maps out the details of the next planned Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA). This involves selecting optimal locations, determining experiment priorities, and planning secure traverses for our analog astronauts. (c) OeWF

Day 04: 15 March 2024
Not only our analog astronauts drew a lot of attention on public day. The Mercator rover from Graz University of Technology had to tread carefully not to run into the paparazzi. It managed this quite well and quickly became the photographers’ favourite. This is the Mercator during one of its numerous interviews ;) Now the rover is ready for its scientific workload. (c) Juliya_ArmSpaceForum

Day 03: 14 March 2024
AMADEE-24 field crew, analog astronauts and the GOST team. The last few days have been challenging and labor-intensive for everyone. All the equipment had to be unpacked from the Gebrüder Weiß containers and put into operation, the experiment teams were on site to go through the final procedures with the field crew. Thanks to the whole team! (c) OeWF/vog.photo

Day 02: 13 March 2024
Greetings from the field in the Ararat region in Armenia. Our analog astronaut Inigo Munoz-Elorza during his first EVA. AMADEE-24 is the Austrian Space Forum’s 14th Mars analog mission, this time more than 20 countries are involved. We benefit from the insight and experience gained from our previous Mars Simulations. (c) Armenian Space Forum

Day 01: 12 March 2024
AMADEE-24 has officially begun. At the end of our Mission Start Livestream, our six analog astronauts Anika Mehlis (Commander), Robert Wild (Deputy Commander), Carmen Köhler, Inigo Munoz-Elorza, Simone Paternostro and Thomas Wijnen walked into their new home – the newly build habitat in the Ararat region in Armenia. (c) OeWF

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