08 February 2021
UAE Hope probe poised to enter Mars' orbit tomorrow
...18,000 km/hr. “This is a heavily rehearsed, designed, tested manoeuvre,” said Sarah Al Amiri, chairperson of the UAE Space Agency and UAE minister of state for advanced technology, during a webinar on 1 February. “But we have never used our thrusters...
13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
... Charles Bolden, who formalised and signed the agreement with UAE Space Agency Chairman Dr. Khalifa Al Romaithi. “I am confident this new framework agreement with the UAE Space Agency will help advance this journey, as well as other endeavours in the...
06 October 2021
UAE aims to flyby Venus and land on an asteroid in new 5yr mission
... accelerate the development of innovation and knowledge-based enterprises in the Emirates," said Ms Al Amiri, Chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. "This can’t be done by going steady-state, this requires leaps in imagination, in faith and the pursuit...
09 February 2021
UAE Hope probe successfully enters Mars' orbit
... the operation without human intervention. Her Excellency Sarah bint Yousef Al Amiri, UAE Minister of State for Advanced Technology and Chair of the UAE Space Agency, said: “Hope reaches Mars at a profound double anniversary: 2021 marks both the...
13 July 2020
UAE's mission to Mars scheduled for launch tomorrow
... Mars – the spacecraft requirement is 477 W. Despite a gloomy weather forecast predicted for tomorrow, space officials, including the UAE Space Agency director-general and deputy project manager of the Emirates Mars Mission, are said to be attending...
29 October 2021
UAE and Blue Origin enter into space tourism partnership
According to The National, a media news outlet published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, the UAE is entering into a space tourism partnership with Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin aerospace company. The deal would see the possible ...
