UAE successfully launches its first interplanetary mission to Mars
The United Arab Emirates has successfully launched its first interplanetary mission. This morning, Al Amal, or the Hope Probe, took off from Japan at 6:58 am Monday 20th July (local time), and is currently headed towards Mars.
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Tau.Neutrino said:
UAE successfully launches its first interplanetary mission to MarsThe United Arab Emirates has successfully launched its first interplanetary mission. This morning, Al Amal, or the Hope Probe, took off from Japan at 6:58 am Monday 20th July (local time), and is currently headed towards Mars.
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I think it’s wonderful that the UAE has taken a real interest in spaceflight. They funded one of the Google X-prize lunar rover teams.
Wikipedia’s entry is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Mars_Mission
“The probe will study daily and seasonal weather cycles, weather events in the lower atmosphere such as dust storms, and how the weather varies in different regions of Mars. It will attempt to answer the scientific questions of why Martian atmosphere is losing hydrogen and oxygen into space and the reason behind drastic climate changes of Mars.”
“Semi-synchronous 55 hour elliptical orbit.”
the Hope probe is equipped with three scientific instruments, all to measure properties of the atmosphere of Mars.
“Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover with a planned launch on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.”
Only six days away, I’ll start a thread at an appropriate time.
Peak Warming Man said:
“Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover with a planned launch on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.”Only six days away, I’ll start a thread at an appropriate time.
China, UAE and NASA are taking advantage of the current launch window to mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/launch/launch-windows/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_is_a_launch_window
Tau.Neutrino said:
Peak Warming Man said:
“Mars 2020 is a Mars rover mission by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program that includes the Perseverance rover with a planned launch on 30 July 2020 at 11:50 UTC, and touch down in Jezero crater on Mars on 18 February 2021.”Only six days away, I’ll start a thread at an appropriate time.
China, UAE and NASA are taking advantage of the current launch window to mars
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/timeline/launch/launch-windows/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_window
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/What_is_a_launch_window
The launch period, the days in which the spacecraft could launch, opens on July 30 and lasts through Aug. 15, 2020.