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Hope- Launch & Cruise
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post May 8 2015, 12:34 AM
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In a Wednesday press conference, officials from the United Arab Emirates announced a Mars orbiter mission named Al-Amal (Hope) for the 2020-21 launch opportunity. There's already a strong Twitter presence (official mission handle: https://twitter.com/UAEMarsMission; the science lead has her bilingual account at https://twitter.com/SarahAmiri1). The probe's website is here and it lists an imager, a UV spectrometer, and an infrared spectrometer as instruments, while LASP at CU-Boulder will be the "lead US scientific-academic partner."

More details here, here, and here on the main English-language Emirati news website.

Always good to see more players get in the planetary exploration game, and while Mars is an ambitious first target the UAE appears to have the partners and funding that a new entrant needs.
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post Jul 19 2020, 11:22 PM
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Looks like both arrays have deployed; apparently there was some sort of concern with one of them.

On to Mars!


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post Jul 20 2020, 02:31 AM
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QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 20 2020, 12:22 AM) *
Looks like both arrays have deployed; apparently there was some sort of concern with one of them.

On to Mars!


Awesome. Missed it as I was zzzz.
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- jekbradbury   Hope- Launch & Cruise   May 8 2015, 12:34 AM
- - Paolo   QUOTE (jekbradbury @ May 8 2015, 02:34 AM...   May 8 2015, 05:51 AM
- - Phil Stooke   The Emirates Mars Mission is indeed happening. Th...   Jan 31 2017, 03:21 AM
- - bobik   Presentation made at the STSC 2017 Session.   Feb 2 2017, 05:23 PM
- - nprev   The United Arab Emirates' first Mars mission i...   Jul 19 2020, 05:44 PM
- - nprev   Coverage now live. T minus 18 min.   Jul 19 2020, 09:40 PM
- - Hungry4info   Launch was successful. We're in a parking orbi...   Jul 19 2020, 10:15 PM
- - Hungry4info   Spacecraft separation was successful!   Jul 19 2020, 11:03 PM
- - nogal   Hope has called home.   Jul 19 2020, 11:14 PM
- - nprev   Looks like both arrays have deployed; apparently t...   Jul 19 2020, 11:22 PM
- - MahFL   QUOTE (nprev @ Jul 20 2020, 12:22 AM) Loo...   Jul 20 2020, 02:31 AM

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