Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), Asteroid tour, with six flybys and one landing |
Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), Asteroid tour, with six flybys and one landing |
May 29 2023, 08:01 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1018 Joined: 29-November 05 From: Seattle, WA, USA Member No.: 590 |
In the absence of a formal document on the UAE site (I even checked the Arabic pages), I think the article on Space.com had the most information:
QUOTE The MBR Explorer will visit its first asteroid in 2030, and will follow an orbital path allowing it to pick up speed from several planets along the way. After passing by six asteroids, the mission aims to touch down upon Justitia in 2034 with a small lander that will deploy from MBR Explorer. The rest of the mission manifest includes flybys of the asteroids (10254) Westerwald, (623) Chimaera, (13294) Rockox; (88055) 2000 VA28, (23871) 1998 RC76 and (59980) 1999 SG6, all meant to represent "different classes of asteroid with varied compositional types," UAE Space Agency officials said in the same statement. Justitia and Chimaera are around 31 miles (50 kilometers) in diameter, with the remaining asteroids less than 6 miles (10 km) across each. |
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May 29 2023, 11:06 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 447 Joined: 1-July 05 From: New York City Member No.: 424 |
Gift link for the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/29/science/...;smid=url-share
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