The UAE's Mars Hope probe launches from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center at 6:58 local time. Credit: MBRSC
The car-sized, US$200-million craft lifted into Earth's orbit on a Mitsubishi H-IIA rocket at 6:58 a.m. local time on 20 July. After the launch, a second stage of the rocket fired, putting the craft on its Mars trajectory.
Two hours later, engineers at mission control at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai declared success, having established communication with the craft.
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United Arab Emirates successfully sends its first mission toward Mars – Spaceflight Now
Riding a Japanese rocket, the Arab world's first interplanetary probe departed planet Earth on Sunday to begin a seven-month journey to Mars on a dual mission of scientific exploration and proving the mettle of the UAE's growing space program.
Funded and led by the United Arab Emirates, the Mars probe carries a digital camera to image the Martian surface, dust storms and ice clouds, and spectrometers to measure constituents at multiple levels of the planet’s atmosphere.
NASA to Broadcast Mars 2020 Perseverance Launch, Prelaunch Activities – NASA's Mars Exploration
Mars 2020 Rover Is Roving : In a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, engineers observed the first driving test for NASA's Mars 2020 rover on Dec. 17, 2019. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Full image and caption ›
Starting July 27, news activities will cover everything from mission engineering and science to returning samples from Mars to, of course, the launch itself.
NASA is targeting 7:50 a.m. EDT (4:50 a.m. PDT) Thursday, July 30, for the launch of its Mars 2020 Perseverance rover on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch window is approximately two hours, with a launch opportunity every five minutes.
Emirates launches first Mars probe with help from UC Berkeley | Berkeley News
The Hope Probe will circle Mars on a 55-day orbit, analyzing its atmosphere. (Photo courtesy of the United Arab Emirates Hope Mars Mission)
At 2:58 p.m. PDT today (Sunday, July 19), the United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched an interplanetary probe — the first by any country in the Arab world — thanks, in part, to science collaboration, training and instrument components provided by the University of California, Berkeley's Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL).
Not to change the topic here:
Chinese Spacecraft Poised for First Mars Mission - Scientific American
With a five-meter-wide, 57-meter-tall rocket waiting to blast off from China’s southern island of Hainan, the nation is quietly making final preparations for its first independent trip to Mars. When the launch window opens in mid-July, Chinese scientists will strive to send a probe to a planet that confused their ancestors with its constantly changing brightness and position in the sky.
Two major risks confront the five-metric-ton Tianwen-1, Logsdon says. First, China’s most powerful heavy-lift rocket, Long March 5, has only launched three times—including a major failure in 2017, when the rocket started to malfunction shortly after takeoff. It took more than two years for scientists to fix Long March 5’s core-stage-engine problem and score a successful flight in late 2019. Its track record makes observers nervous, however.
Who Wants to Count All the Craters on Mars? Not Me! - Eos
Astrogeology is yet another field that is benefitting from both data from advanced imaging of planets, moons, asteroids, and comets in our solar system, and machine learning from computer science. Researchers knew that there were hundreds of thousands of craters on Mars with diameters larger than 1 kilometer. All these craters were determined by humans. However, having a human identify craters quickly runs into a barrier – the crater size.
Benedix et al. [2020] present the results of computer crater selection that have been validated against current manual databases. The new algorithm is shown to successfully count craters down to 10 pixels diameter on any number of high‐resolution images. This means, for the first time, an automated crater counting tool can deliver geologically meaningful relative ages as well as counts for craters.
UAE successfully launches the Arab world's first Mars mission - CNN Video
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The United Arab Emirates launched a spacecraft toward Mars on Monday, in the Arab world's first interplanetary miss… https://t.co/jbFzWlwd6m WSJ (from New York, NY) Mon Jul 20 11:10:22 +0000 2020
The UAE has successfully launched the Arab world's first interplanetary exploration mission. MORE:… https://t.co/VGQBJxjV3T RT_com Tue Jul 21 03:00:01 +0000 2020
UAE launches Hope probe in Arab world's first mission to Mars https://t.co/eOf0dOLzuf https://t.co/vUSbAGK1kO AJEnglish (from Doha, Qatar) Mon Jul 20 10:37:14 +0000 2020
The Arab world's first mission to Mars begins with blastoff in Japan for a spacecraft named Amal, or Hope https://t.co/ZWcSmR1Luw via @AP business (from New York and the World) Mon Jul 20 11:35:03 +0000 2020
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