The UAE (United Arab Emirates) space agency launched its maiden mission to Mars in 2020, fewer than ten years after it was established. So, how did they do it?
The name of the spaceship was “Hope.” However, it wasn’t from the United States, Russia, or the European Union. Instead, Hope was the first spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA) to go further than an orbit around the Earth. If it works, it will be the first Arab spaceship to reach Mars, and the UAE will be only the fifth country in the world to put a spaceship in orbit around Mars.
As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was getting ready to celebrate its 50th anniversary, its space agency put its reputation on the line by sending a spaceship into orbit around Mars on the first try to send back information about the weather on Mars that had never been seen before...Read More
Source: California Gazette