Video: One year on – Hope Probe brings UAE’s space journey beyond Mars

  • Date: 19-Jul-2021
  • Source: Gulf News
  • Sector:Defense
  • Country:UAE
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Video: One year on – Hope Probe brings UAE’s space journey beyond Mars

Dubai: July 20 "” in the early hours of this day last year, the UAE's dream of reaching for the stars was realised. Hope Probe, the first Arab interplanetary mission, was successfully launched from Tanegashima Space Centre (TNSC) in the Kagoshima Prefecture of southwestern Japan was successfully launched at 1.58am (UAE time) on July 20, 2020. One year has passed and Hope Probe is currently orbiting the Red Planet to create a complete picture of the Martian atmosphere. "The mission has not only performed nominally across all areas, but has exceeded its anticipated performance, encompassing a range of additional activities and freeing up valuable resources to perform additional observations," said the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) on the eve of its first anniversary. Recalling the historic moment, Sharaf said in an earlier interview with Gulf News: "It was a day "full of pride, happiness and positivity. Yes, it was a very busy, intense and stressful day; but personally, I was confident about the teamwork and spacecraft design." Hope Probe journeyed over 493 million km to reach the Red Planet. The original seven Trajectory Correction Manoeuvres (TCMs) was cut to four because of the spacecraft's outstanding performance during the Launch and Early