The Emirates Mars Mission (Arabic: مشروع الإمارات لاستكشاف المر...
wikipedia - 15 Sep 2021The Emirates Mars Mission (Arabic: مشروع الإمارات لاستكشاف المريخ) is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope (Arabic: مسبار الأمل, Al Amal) orbiter was launched on 19 July 2020,[5] and reached Mars on 9 February 2021. The spacecraft was launched from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan with a Japanese rocket, the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA launch vehicle.