During the last years, more and more space missions have been choosing Mars as target for their research missions. Many different Space Agencies from all over the world are organizing their resources to reach the Red Planet and unravel the aspects which remains still mysterious to our eyes. Missions like Mars Sample return and Perseverance are an example of the technological efforts we are taking in order to gather the highest amount of information about this world that, still now, represents a challenge on many levels and it could open ways we can barely imagine nowadays. For this very reason, the present thesis offers the reader a report of the research activity which has the goal to plan a mission based on the State of Art of Small-Sat technology.