UAE Mars Hope probe launch delayed to Friday

UAE Mars Hope probe launch delayed to Friday

The probe was scheduled to launch at 00.51 on July 15.





The launch of the UAE's Mars probe has been postponed, it was announced on Tuesday. The Hope probe was scheduled to launch at 00.51 on July 15.

It will now launch on Friday, July 17, at 12.43am UAE time.

The UAE's space mission, the Arab world's first interplanetary mission, will launch on Friday July 17, 2020 at 12:43am UAE time (July 16, 2020 at 8:43pm GMT) from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan.

- UAEGov (@uaegov) July 14, 2020

"The UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, have announced a delay of the Emirates Mars Mission's Hope Probe launch due to the weather conditions at the launch site of Tanegashima Island in Japan," the UAE Government tweeted.

The UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, in collaboration with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, have announced a delay of the Emirates Mars Mission's Hope Probe launch due to the weather conditions at the launch site of Tanegashima Island in Japan.

- UAEGov (@uaegov) July 14, 2020

The probe's scheduled launch date of July 15 represented the opening of the launch window for the Emirates Mars Mission,