Emirates Mars Mission Hope Probe ready for science data gathering DUBAI, March 9, 2021 The Emirates Mars Mission, the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation, has announced the completion of its commissioning and testing phase and its readiness for transition to its science orbit. The completion of testing is ahead of schedule and the transition to science manoeuvres will take place earlier than planned.
“We have completed twenty-one orbits of Mars since we arrived at the Red planet on the evening of the 9th February,” said EMM Project Director Omran Sharaf. “In that time, we’ve been busy calibrating the Hope probe’s three instruments, commissioning and testing the spacecraft’s instrumentation subsystems and using every opportunity to gather data while we’ve been in our capture orbit.”