UAE Space Agency - Hope Mars Mission patch.
July 20, 2020
Hope Mars Mission Launch
The UAE Space Agency’s Hope Mars Mission was launched by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’s H-IIA F42 launch vehicle from the Yoshinobu Launch Complex, at JAXA’s Tanegashima Space Center, Japan, on 19 July 2020, at 21:58:14 UTC (20 July, at 06:58:14 Japan Standard Time - JST).
Hope Mars Mission Launch
The Hope Probe (مسبار الأمل) was developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates and is designed to study the atmosphere of Mars.
"Hope" is expected to begin orbiting Mars by February 2021, marking the 50th anniversary of the unification of the seven principalities that make up the United Arab Emirates. Once there, the probe will circle the planet for an entire Martian year of 687 Earth days. The goal is to provide a complete picture of the dynamics of time in the atmosphere of the red planet.
Emirates Mars Mission "Al-Amal" (Hope) probe
The UAE program is one of three ongoing projects towards the red planet, alongside the Tianwen-1 from China and March 2020 from the United States, which take advantage of the period when Earth and Mars are closest: to barely 55 million km apart, compared to an average of around 76 million km.
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https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/07/emirati-probe-to-mars-launched-again.html
Emirates Mars Mission: https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/
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