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I thought they developed the sat, didn't they?
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UAE Launches its "Own" Mars Mission - LOLZZZZZZZZZ!!!!
Designer / Manufacturer: The University of California, The Arizona State University & The University of Colorado - USA
Contractor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Japan
Launched Site: Tanegashima Space Center - Japan
Operators: Non-Arabs
Designer / Manufacturer: The University of California, The Arizona State University & The University of Colorado - USA
Contractor: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Japan
Launched Site: Tanegashima Space Center - Japan
Operators: Non-Arabs
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https://www.space.com/hope-mars-mission-uae-facts.html
The UAE's Hope Mars orbiter: Here's 6 things to know about the historic mission
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is sending a spacecraft called Hope to Mars in what will, if successful, become the first interplanetary mission based out of the Arab region.
The mission focuses on understanding Mars' weather and atmosphere. It's a topic that plenty of missions have touched on before, but the Hope spacecraft will take a new, more comprehensive approach to the question. The UAE hopes the mission will help scientists around the world to understand how weather changes on the Red Planet over the course of a day and between the Martian seasons; the mission could also shed light on how our neighboring world is losing its atmosphere.
The United Arab Emirates' Hope mission to Mars in photos
Hope is the UAE's first mission beyond Earth orbit
An engineer at work on the Hope orbiter in the clean room. (Image credit: MBRSC)
The UAE is still pretty new to spaceflight, first participating in a satellite launch in 2009 in partnership with a South Korean company. The country's first domestically built satellite, an Earth-observing mission called KhalifaSat, launched in 2018.
Hope is the country's first-ever foray beyond Earth orbit. As with its early satellites, the UAE recruited partners to help make the mission more feasible and to develop the knowhow necessary for the mission. In this case, the UAE partnered with three U.S. universities who host faculty with experience on Mars spacecraft.
The mission had to be fast and cheap
UAE dignitaries at the 2014 event announcing the Emirates Mars Mission project. (Image credit: MBRSC)
The Hope mission, also called the Emirates Mars Mission, was first announced in 2014 as a way to spur economic and technological development. The mission came with several stipulations: although the project would be based on partnerships, the team needed to build the spacecraft not just buy it, and the spacecraft needed to arrive at Mars before December 2021, when the UAE will celebrate its 50th anniversary. That deadline required a launch this summer because of the tricky orbital alignments that put Mars launch windows 26 months apart from each other.
And, of course, the mission couldn't be too expensive. All told, the spacecraft and its launch cost $200 million, according to the UAE, although that number doesn't include the costs of operating the mission in space.
The UAE could be the fifth entity to visit Mars
A view of the second stage of the rocket that will launch the UAE's Hope mission to Mars. (Image credit: MBRSC)
Mars is hard. To date, only four entities have successfully visited Mars: NASA, Russia, the European Space Agency and India. If all goes well, the UAE would join that contingent.
But the country may not end up being the fifth Mars visitor because China is also launching its first Mars mission this summer while orbits align. Neither mission has yet announced when specifically it will arrive at the Red Planet, although both will be on track for an early 2021 rendezvous.
(NASA's Mars 2020 mission, starring the massive Perseverance rover, is targeting the same three-week launch window.)
Hope carries three instruments
Hope's infrared spectrometer as seen before being loaded onto the spacecraft. (Image credit: MBRSC)
Hope, which is about the size of an SUV, carries three instruments. One is an imager, which will capture photographs in optical and ultraviolet light. The other two are spectrometers, which split light into the specific wavelengths present, one working on ultraviolet and one on infrared light.
As a team, the three instruments will allow Hope to study the thin, carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mars in order to better understand the Red Planet's weather and how it loses its atmosphere out to space.
Hope will have a unique Mars orbit
An artist's depiction of the Hope probe at work around Mars. (Image credit: MBRSC)
While the mission's instruments build on existing technology, the Hope spacecraft will use a unique tactic to gather its science data: traveling in an orbit around Mars no probe has taken before. Every 55 hours, the spacecraft will complete a loop around the planet's equator, flying between 12,000 to 27,000 miles (20,000 to 43,000 kilometers) above the Martian surface.
That path will allow the probe to study changes in weather over the course of the full Martian day, which lasts a bit longer than a terrestrial day, and year, which lasts nearly two Earth years. The primary mission will continue for one Mars year.
The UAE wants humans to follow Hope to Mars
UAE spaceflight participant Hazzaa AlMansoori poses while boarding a Soyuz capsule bound for the International Space Station in September 2019. (Image credit: NASA)
Choosing to send its first interplanetary robot to Mars fits with other priorities within the UAE's space program. Currently, the nation's main human spaceflight focus is sending astronauts to the International Space Station; the first Emirati astronaut, Hazzaa AlMansoori, launched in September 2019 for a weeklong flight. The UAE is already recruiting its next pair of astronauts and strategizing longer missions to orbit.
But the Red Planet also sits firmly in the UAE's goals. The country is preparing to participate in a Mars analog mission for the first time later this year. If all goes according to plan, the country may soon host such analogue missions, as well as other Mars-focused research, at the Mars Science City facility it is planning to construct in the desert.
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The UAE despite its size has really forward looking leaders who are bent of creating wealth and development for the country. It's good that they are trying to diversify away from oil.
https://www.space.com/hope-mars-mission-uae-facts.html
The UAE's Hope Mars orbiter: Here's 6 things to know about the historic mission
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is sending a spacecraft called Hope to Mars in what will, if successful, become the first interplanetary mission based out of the Arab region.
The mission focuses on understanding Mars' weather and atmosphere. It's a topic that plenty of missions have touched on before, but the Hope spacecraft will take a new, more comprehensive approach to the question. The UAE hopes the mission will help scientists around the world to understand how weather changes on the Red Planet over the course of a day and between the Martian seasons; the mission could also shed light on how our neighboring world is losing its atmosphere.
The United Arab Emirates' Hope mission to Mars in photos
Hope is the UAE's first mission beyond Earth orbit
An engineer at work on the Hope orbiter in the clean room. (Image credit: MBRSC)
The UAE is still pretty new to spaceflight, first participating in a satellite launch in 2009 in partnership with a South Korean company. The country's first domestically built satellite, an Earth-observing mission called KhalifaSat, launched in 2018.
Hope is the country's first-ever foray beyond Earth orbit. As with its early satellites, the UAE recruited partners to help make the mission more feasible and to develop the knowhow necessary for the mission. In this case, the UAE partnered with three U.S. universities who host faculty with experience on Mars spacecraft.
The mission had to be fast and cheap
UAE dignitaries at the 2014 event announcing the Emirates Mars Mission project. (Image credit: MBRSC)
The Hope mission, also called the Emirates Mars Mission, was first announced in 2014 as a way to spur economic and technological development. The mission came with several stipulations: although the project would be based on partnerships, the team needed to build the spacecraft not just buy it, and the spacecraft needed to arrive at Mars before December 2021, when the UAE will celebrate its 50th anniversary. That deadline required a launch this summer because of the tricky orbital alignments that put Mars launch windows 26 months apart from each other.
And, of course, the mission couldn't be too expensive. All told, the spacecraft and its launch cost $200 million, according to the UAE, although that number doesn't include the costs of operating the mission in space.
The UAE could be the fifth entity to visit Mars
A view of the second stage of the rocket that will launch the UAE's Hope mission to Mars. (Image credit: MBRSC)
Mars is hard. To date, only four entities have successfully visited Mars: NASA, Russia, the European Space Agency and India. If all goes well, the UAE would join that contingent.
But the country may not end up being the fifth Mars visitor because China is also launching its first Mars mission this summer while orbits align. Neither mission has yet announced when specifically it will arrive at the Red Planet, although both will be on track for an early 2021 rendezvous.
(NASA's Mars 2020 mission, starring the massive Perseverance rover, is targeting the same three-week launch window.)
Hope carries three instruments
Hope's infrared spectrometer as seen before being loaded onto the spacecraft. (Image credit: MBRSC)
Hope, which is about the size of an SUV, carries three instruments. One is an imager, which will capture photographs in optical and ultraviolet light. The other two are spectrometers, which split light into the specific wavelengths present, one working on ultraviolet and one on infrared light.
As a team, the three instruments will allow Hope to study the thin, carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mars in order to better understand the Red Planet's weather and how it loses its atmosphere out to space.
Hope will have a unique Mars orbit
An artist's depiction of the Hope probe at work around Mars. (Image credit: MBRSC)
While the mission's instruments build on existing technology, the Hope spacecraft will use a unique tactic to gather its science data: traveling in an orbit around Mars no probe has taken before. Every 55 hours, the spacecraft will complete a loop around the planet's equator, flying between 12,000 to 27,000 miles (20,000 to 43,000 kilometers) above the Martian surface.
That path will allow the probe to study changes in weather over the course of the full Martian day, which lasts a bit longer than a terrestrial day, and year, which lasts nearly two Earth years. The primary mission will continue for one Mars year.
The UAE wants humans to follow Hope to Mars
UAE spaceflight participant Hazzaa AlMansoori poses while boarding a Soyuz capsule bound for the International Space Station in September 2019. (Image credit: NASA)
Choosing to send its first interplanetary robot to Mars fits with other priorities within the UAE's space program. Currently, the nation's main human spaceflight focus is sending astronauts to the International Space Station; the first Emirati astronaut, Hazzaa AlMansoori, launched in September 2019 for a weeklong flight. The UAE is already recruiting its next pair of astronauts and strategizing longer missions to orbit.
But the Red Planet also sits firmly in the UAE's goals. The country is preparing to participate in a Mars analog mission for the first time later this year. If all goes according to plan, the country may soon host such analogue missions, as well as other Mars-focused research, at the Mars Science City facility it is planning to construct in the desert.
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Ay man, it counts
Really? So they are just passengers?
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Meet the people behind the UAE’s Hope Probe Mission to Mars
"Over 200 Emirati engineers, scientists and analysts have collaborated on Hope Probe since it was first announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, back in 2014."
https://gulfnews.com/uae/science/pi...ational-space-station-1.1570089957806?slide=9
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I don't know if there are any passengers on the space craft which is on it's way to planet Mars.
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