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Flying the Busy Skies: UAE Signs Japan’s H-IIA for 2020 Mars Launch
By 2016.03.22 1 Comments Read More →

Flying the Busy Skies: UAE Signs Japan’s H-IIA for 2020 Mars Launch

The space lanes between Earth and Mars about to get rather crowded during the 2020 orbital launch window. The latest news comes from the United Arab Emirates, and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, who have announced a contract for Japan’s H-IIA launch vehicle to boost UAE’s HOPE mission to the Red Planet in 2020. Previous reports […]

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“Hope” for the Middle East: UAE Introduces its Mars Orbiter Mission
By 2015.05.07 0 Comments Read More →

“Hope” for the Middle East: UAE Introduces its Mars Orbiter Mission

The United Arab Emirates has provided quite a bit more information on the Mars orbiter mission it announced last year. Named Hope, it would launch in 2020, and arrive at Mars in 2021, in time to highlight the 50th anniversary of the founding of UAE. Its scientific objective is to provide the first complete holistic […]

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