The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is sending
a spacecraft called Hope to Mars.
It was built by Mohammed bin Rashid Space
Centre, an Emirati space organization.
The hope probe was set to launch on Tuesday
July 14 but was postponed twice this week
due to unstable weather at the launch site,
now it is set to launch today.
WHEN WILL IT REACH TO MARS?
WHAT IS ITS ARABIC NAME?
WHY UAE WANTS TO EXPLORE MARS?
WHERE IS ITS LAUNCH SITE?
WHAT ABOUT THE DURATION OF THIS MISSION?
WHAT ARE THE PROPERTIES OF THE SPACECRAFT?
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are talking about UAE MISSION TO MARS.
The probe's name is "Al-Amal” which means
"hope” while the name of this mission is
Emirates mars mission.
This $200 million mission will embark on a
seven-month cruise to Mars, slipping into
orbit around the Mars in February 2021 and
begin studying the Martian atmosphere in late
2021.
To gather its observations, Hope will take
up a near-equatorial orbit that stands off
from the planet at a distance of 22,000km
to 44,000km and will complete its orbit around
the MARS in 55 hours.
The data will be collected at Mars for an
entire Martian year.
The mission focuses on understanding Mars'
weather and atmosphere.
Scientists have designed the spacecraft to
allow them to explore the planet's "diurnal,"
or day-to-night cycle.
And that is what has never been done before.
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.
It will help answer some questions about the
global Martin atmosphere and loss of hydrogen
and oxygen gases into space over the span
of one martin year.
The UAE will share the data it collects with
more than 200 academic and scientific institutions
around the world free of charge.
The launch site is Tanegashima island in japan.
The duration of this mission is two years.
And its operator is Mohammed bin Rashid Space
Centre.
Now let’s talk about its properties.
As we discussed earlier that its name is "Al-Amal”
which means "hope”
The probe or spacecraft is nearly a car-sized.
Its cruising distance will be 493.5 Million
kilometers.
Positional and orientation knowledge is provided
by star trackers and coarse Sun sensors.
Propulsion is provided by four to six 120-N
thrusters mounted on the bottom of the spacecraft.
The probe has a total mass, including fuel,
of 1500 kg.
It is powered by two solar panels wings affixed
to the top platform with a combined power
of 1800 watts.
Antenna mounted on the top deck of the spacecraft
has communication rates of 1.6 Mbps at the
minimum Earth-Mars distance to 250 kbps at
its furthest point.
In 2018, the MBRSC launched its first "100%
UAE-designed and manufactured" remote-sensing
satellite,
The MRBSC also has an astronaut program.
Hazzaa Al-Mansoori became the first Emirati
in space when he flew to the International
Space Station (ISS) on a scientific mission
in 2019.
