First Mars Mission By An Islamic Country

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Roscosmos , NASA, and the European Space Agency and ISRO have successfully sent a probe to Mars
In July 2020 UAE and China will launch their own Mars missions

Spacecraft Hope (Arabic: , الأمل Al Amal The Amal Mars Mission or Hope Mars Mission is
the first ever interplanetary mission to Mars led by any West Asian, Arab or Muslim majority country.
The probe will orbit the planet Mars to study its atmosphere.

The Japanese rocket carrying the probe developed by the UAE lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Centre
in southern Japan Hope is scheduled to reach Mars in February 2021
Amal is set to reach Mars in February 2021 , the year the UAE celebrates 50 years since the country’s Tianwen 1
The mission is planned to be launched on 23 July 2020 with a Long March 5 heavy lift rocket
Landing Mar s February April 2021

The minimum distance from the Earth to Mars is about 33.9 million miles ( 54.6 million kilometres).
But these two probes will travel far more than that as they will not be taking the shortest route

The mission was announced by Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the United Arab
Emirates , in July 2014
The spacecraft orbiter is a mission to Mars to study the Martian atmosphere and climate built by the
Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre , University of Colorado Boulder , Arizona State University, and
University of California, Berkeley.

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency and ISRO set up a joint working group regarding this mission in 2019

The name Hope (Arabic: al Amal) was chosen because “it sends a message of optimism to
millions of young Arabs “, according to Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Ruler of the emirate of Dubai for whom the lead space center , the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre
(MBRSC), of the United Arab Emirates, is LAUNCH
The Hope probe was launched from Japan in July 2020 and it will take seven months to arrive at Mars
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the provider of the H 2A rocket

Hope will carry instruments to study the upper atmosphere and monitor climate change on Mars. It is
scheduled to circle the red planet for at least two years. The UAE says it will provide a complete view of
the Martian atmosphere during different seasons for the first time.
A newcomer in space development, the UAE has so far successfully launched three observation satellites, but has not gone beyond the Earth s orbit.