Tianwen No. 1" is named after Qu Yuan's poem "Tianwen", which expresses the Chinese people's perseverance and persistence in the pursuit of truth, embodies the cultural inheritance of the exploration of nature and cosmic space, and implies that the quest for scientific truth is a long one, and the pursuit of scientific and technological innovation is never-ending.

Chinese Academy of Sciences units involved in the "Tianwen One" development:

China's first Mars exploration mission "Tianwen One" detector 23 from Hainan Wenchang successfully launched into space. Reporter learned from the Chinese Academy of Sciences on the same day, which belongs to the 13 units as the main research and development unit involved in the "Tianwen One" related tasks development, breakthroughs in the Earth and fire long-distance large data volume digital transmission and many other key technologies for the "Tianwen One" launch mission a complete success to play an irreplaceable role. The company's mission is to provide the best service to the people of China.

In the "Tianwen-1" mission, CAS continues to take the lead in demonstrating and proposing the scientific objectives of the mission and the configuration of the payload, and continues to undertake the development of the ground application system, the payload subsystem, the VLBI orbiting subsystem, and a number of key products of the project, and will subsequently organize the application of scientific data jointly with the National Space Administration (NSA). It will also jointly organize and carry out scientific data application research with the National Space Administration.