How Is the UAE Mars Mission Changing the Middle East’s Education Sector?

How Is the UAE Mars Mission Changing the Middle East’s Education Sector?

The 20th of July 2020 has been a historic day in the UAE, as it witnessed the launch of the Middle East's first spacecraft "Hope" tasked with exploring the red planet. The unprecedented endeavor is now generating a whole set of new interests amongst Emiratis and other Arab nations, who realized that they can finally reach the space.

The Hope probe will travel 495 million km to space with a cruise speed of 121,000 km/hr in the first ever Arab mission to the Red Planet. The data gathered by the probe will add a new dimension to the human knowledge. This is our latest contribution to the world. pic.twitter.com/GbVSfjQSRL

“” HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) July 18, 2020

The Emirati successful venture isn't as new as many people would think. For over a decade now, the country has been founding several space institutes one step at a time so it could reach this latest milestone.

In 2006, the Dubai government established The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST). Three years later, the UAE government established the Earth Observation Space Center in Abu Dhabi, through which it launched several satellites that orbited around planet Earth, the same year in which the United Arab Emirates Space Agency was created.

Since