Mars mission will inspire UAE businesses to take risks: Minister

Mars mission will inspire UAE businesses to take risks: Minister

The UAE's journey towards the Red Planet is "five times more complex" than any other space mission the country has undertaken.





The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) will not only send Hope to space, it will also inspire big companies and small and medium enterprises to take risks and succeed, a minister has said. 

"When you talk about transforming the economy and developing science and technology, and building new companies and small and medium enterprises, it depends on the capability to take risks, mitigate them and come out with larger impacts," said Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology, and Deputy Project Manager and Science Lead of the EMM.

The way the Mars mission is meeting challenges and achieving its target will inspire other projects and enterprises in all other sectors, the minister said in a Zoom interview from Japan, where she is supervising the last leg operations for the launch of Hope Probe.

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The UAE's historic journey towards the Red Planet is "five times more complex" than any other space mission the country has undertaken, Al Amiri said, and yet the country beat the odds, including