Hope Probe’s success ‘inspires’ South Korea’s space projects
By Binsal Abdulkader
ABU DHABI, 14th February 2021 (WAM) South Korea, which has planned a lunar mission and expressed its desire for joint Moon and Mars explorations with the UAE, said the success of the latter’s Mars mission has inspired Korean researchers to further research on their space projects.
In an interview with the Emirates News Agency (WAM), Jeong-Joo Park, Vice-President of Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI), which is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea, said, Despite its short history compared to other leading space-faring nations, the UAE has become the fifth country to carry out a Mars mission.