VIDEO: First communication with Hope Probe 90 minutes after launch – Gulf Today

VIDEO: First communication with Hope Probe 90 minutes after launch – Gulf Today

VIDEO: First communication with Hope Probe 90 minutes after launch

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An employee works at the control room of the Mars Mission at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. File/AFP

Yamama Bedwan, Staff Reporter

Ninety minutes will pass slower than people imagine until we receive the first communication with the Hope Probe after its launch at the front of the "H-IIA“ launcher at a speed of 34,000 kph towards Mars. The engineers will be in the operation room at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre waiting for the first contact with the Probe after the lift-off, on July 15, 2020 from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan

It is expected that the first signal sent by the Probe from space to Earth will be exactly at 2:31:27 after midnight according to UAE local time.

This will be after it separates from the rocket an hour after its launch and half an hour later, the first contact will be made. Such a phase is as important as the launch itself, as the "H-IIA“ launcher weighs 289 tonnes, and is 53 metres long.

Technically, the first stage begins with the start of the launch process. The solid fuel impeller lifts-off the rocket after it