United Arab Emirates Begins Network Of Travel Missions To Mars

Hope satellite to be sent to Mars (dock UEA Space Agency)

JAKARTA - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will open a series of trips to explore Mars. Through the mission 'Hope Mars', the UAE will launch its first satellite to the red planet.

Citing the Space page, the UAE Space Agency is preparing to launch its first satellite in a matter of hours. This satellite will be launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan on July 17 local time or Wednesday July 18 for Indonesia.

"I think this is a mission of hope for us (the UAE). If a small country like us is able to achieve this kind of mission and take us to explore Mars," said Hessa Al Matroushi, data science and analysis at Mohammed Bin Rashid, UAE.

Once launched, the 'Hope' satellite is scheduled to enter Mars orbit in February 2021. The UAE-made spacecraft will carry out its mission to explore Mars for two years.

There are three missions that will be carried out by this spacecraft while orbiting the planet Mars. In addition to observing the atmosphere, weather and climate on Mars, this satellite will also explore the plains on the red planet.

NASA and China

Not only the UAE which will explore Mars, the United States national space agency (NASA) is also preparing to launch its newest spacecraft, Ingenuity to explore the red planet. This drone or drone will be part of the MARS 2020 mission.

Ingenuity will be part of the Perseverance Rover mission that is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on July 20, 2020. This explorer robot is designed to help scientists find out the possibility of life on Mars.

Apart from NASA, China Aerospasce Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has also announced the Tianwen-1 mission which will explore the planet Mars. The plan, Tianwen-1 will air on July 23, 2020 and will arrive on Mars in February 2021.

Just like the other two missions mili UAE and NASA, Tianwen-1 will study the composition of the atmosphere of Mars and study evidence of past and present life on the Red planet.

So far, only the United States (US) and Russia have successfully landed their robot explorers on Mars. Previously, India had failed to send its spacecraft to the red planet, in early 2020.