MG-05Class · PlanetaryStatus · Concept
Mangal Crawler
A city on eight legs.
Mangal is the first mobile Martian settlement — a walking pressurized village that follows sunlight, resources, and curiosity across the red plains.
Mission purpose
Long-duration Martian surface habitation and continent-scale exploration.
Static bases are museums waiting to happen. Mangal walks. Twenty settlers, farms, labs, and workshops in a single articulated craft crossing 40 km per Martian day.
Powered by a compact fission core and a folding photovoltaic sail, it drinks Martian water and breathes Martian air, split by electrolysis into fuel and life.
Specifications
Nominal- Mass
- 220 t
- Crew
- 20
- Range
- Global
- Power
- 1.2 MW fission + solar
- Life support
- Closed-loop, ISRU
Core systems
- ◆Eight articulated pressurized legs
- ◆Atmospheric CO₂ to methane loop
- ◆Regolith 3D-printed shielding
- ◆Autonomous rover swarm escort
Flight timeline
Projected2035
Earth-analog trial in Ladakh
2038
Uncrewed Mars delivery
2041
First crewed traverse