The launch will be carried out on the H-IIA launcher from the Tengeshima Space Center in Japan at close to 01:00 * Its mission is to investigate global weather phenomena on Mars, and to examine the phenomenon of the escape of hydrogen and oxygen atoms from it into space
Note 20/7/20 time 02:10: The launch was carried out successfully.
Apparently another spacecraft that takes advantage of the launch window to Mars that opens once every 26 months and falls on the months of July-August 2020. Tonight, close to one o'clock Israel time, the "El Amal" spacecraft, which was born by the United Gulf Principalities, is supposed to be launched. The launch will be carried out on the H-IIA launcher from the Tengeshima Space Center in Japan around 01:00 Israel time. (See live broadcast).
The name of the probe "Al-Amal" means hope in Arabic or HOPE as the media prefers to call it in the English language.
What is special about the new spacecraft is the place of its development and production, which requires enormous engineering knowledge - the United Arab Emirates. Mohammed bin Rashid, the Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates who also serves as Emir of Dubai, said that "Arab civilization in the past had a great role in contributing to human knowledge, and this role will return to it." He admitted that the goal is to accelerate the development of the country known mainly as an oil principality in the Persian Gulf.
Work on the construction of the spacecraft began in 2014 in collaboration with American universities.. This is not the first space mission of the Emirates, in 2006 the newly established space agency began cooperation to transfer knowledge from South Korea which led to the launch of two observation satellites in 2009 and 2013 and the launch of the Naif 1 nano satellite in 2017. The Emirates also sent an astronaut to the space station - Hamza Al Mansouri, in 2019.
According to the plan, "Hatikva" will start circling Mars in February 2021. In the same year, the Emirates will also celebrate fifty years of unification and independence. The orbiter will circle in an elliptical orbit, at an altitude between 20 and 43 thousand km and at an angle that will allow studying the daily cycle of Mars, from day to night, something that has never been done before.
The UAE mission "Hope" is expected to be the first spacecraft to provide a complete picture of the Martian atmosphere and its layers when it reaches the Red Planet's orbit in 2021. It will help answer key questions about the global atmosphere of Mars and the loss of hydrogen and oxygen gases to space over the course of a Mars year. One.
- Understanding the dynamics of the climate and preparing the global weather map by characterizing the lower atmosphere of Mars.
- Understand how the weather changes the escape of hydrogen and oxygen through a correlation between the conditions of the lower atmosphere and the conditions of the upper atmosphere.
- Understanding the structure and variation of hydrogen and oxygen in the upper atmosphere, as well as discovering why Mars loses them to space.
Once verified, the data will be open to the entire international scientific community.
To the spacecraft page on the UAE Space Agency website
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They have so much money that they no longer have anything to spend it on...
The fact that they call it hope and not jihad or something like that already raises a glimmer of hope that there might be some kind of change here one day,
It is not clear how much of this is actually produced here, but the fact that funds are directed to something that can advance humanity
This is a start, the oil will eventually run out and if this region does not progress, all that will be left is religious wars
In short, they paid money for someone else to do the work for them and build a spacecraft. Money given to them by the Americans that is now also returned to them. Where exactly is the Arab development and contribution here...