13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... to launch from a remote Japanese island, Tanegashima, during a narrow launch window at 20:51:27 UTC/GMT on 14 July, the Emirates Mars Mission, or "Hope", will blast off on a seven month journey to the Red Planet. Once in orbit, the probe will...
09 February 2021
UAE Hope probe successfully enters Mars' orbit
The Emirates Mars Mission’s Hope Probe has officially reached Mars, entering its Mars capture orbit at 19:57 UAE time (15:57 UTC). The first interplanetary mission undertaken by an Arab nation, the confirmation of Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI) makes ...
06 October 2021
UAE aims to flyby Venus and land on an asteroid in new 5yr mission
... leaps in imagination, in faith and the pursuit of goals that go beyond prudent or methodical. "When we embarked on the Emirates Mars Mission, we took on a six-year task that was in the order of five times more complex than the Earth...
05 July 2021
Hope probe catches striking pictures of auroras at Mars
...sent from the Sun. The ions are funnelled down into Mars' thin and wispy atmosphere by a patchy network of ...the UAE said in a statement last week. Billions of years ago, Mars once had a thicker, warmer atmosphere that allowed liquid water to flow on...
18 June 2020
Countdown to NASA’s new Mars rover launch
..., and a ground-penetrating radar. Riding along, stowed under Perseverance’s belly pan, will be the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Part of Perseverance’s mission is to collect samples to leave behind in caches that a future rover could collect for return...
20 July 2020
Hope launch heralds ambitious future space plans
... already looking ahead to future spacefaring plans: a spaceport Virgin Galactic is eyeing, in-space agriculture with Nanoracks, a Mars sample-return mission no one’s ever heard of — if one UAE engineer gets her wish, that is — not to mention the 100...
