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Hope Probe reaches the most critical point in its rendezvous with the Red Planet

Dubai: Aside from the UAE’s Hope Probe, two more Mars missions are expected to rendezvous with the Red Planet this month. Hope Probe, the first Arab interplanetary mission, will be the first to reach Mars on February 9 at 7.42pm (UAE time), to be followed by China’s Tianwen-1 dual orbiter-rover on February 10, while Perseverance rover by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) will make a landing attempt in an area on Mars on February 18. All three Mars missions were launched in July last year and each has its own mission to explore the Red Planet. Omran Sharaf Pr...

Dubai: The young cadres of Emirati engineers at Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) are confident of a successful Mars orbit insertion (MOI) for Hope Probe on February 9, that will make the UAE only the fifth country or entity in the world to reach Mars. The Mars orbit insertion (MOI) is the most challenging part of the mission, where precision is key to success. If Hope Probe goes too fast or too slow, it will either crash on Mars or widely miss its orbit and get lost in deep space. Gulf News visited the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) command centre at MBRSC in Dubai days before the MOI. T...