UAE's Hope Probe mission๐

Mars mission from scratch in six years When the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ๐ฆ๐ช announced in 2014 that it would send a mission to Mars by the country’s 50th birthday ๐ in December 2021, it looked like a Mars mission from scratch in six years At the time, the nation had no space agency and no planetary scientists, and had only recently launched its first satellite . The rapidly assembled team of engineers, with an average age of 27, frequently heard the same jibe * UAE’s Hope Probe Mars Mission *๐ ๐ The UAE’s Hope Probe ( * Al Amal in Arabic * ) is the first Arab * interplanetary mission * . ๐ It is designed to orbit Mars and provide the * first-ever complete picture of Martian atmosphere. * ๐ Hope Probe will begin its journey to Mars on July 17 at exactly 00:43:00am (UAE time)⌛ from * Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre (TNSC) aboard Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA rocket. * ๐Hope Probe was built by a team of * 150 Emirati engineers *๐ท who collaborated with Amer...