Dubai, United Arab Emirates – The United Arab Emirates announced on Tuesday it plans to explore the planet Venus before the end of the next decade, and land on an asteroid, in reference to its most famous new ambition. After his first mission to Mars.
The spacecraft will take seven years to establish the mission, with a launch date set for 2028. It will orbit Venus and then Earth, using gravity-assisted maneuvers to reach the asteroid belt body by 2030. The vehicle will then monitor seven large asteroids. in the belt, before landing on the asteroid at 560 million kilometers (347 million miles) from Earth in 2033.
The Venus mission has been around since the 1960s, with the Soviet Union, United States, European Space Agency and Japan having successfully orbited the second planet from the Sun.
The mission, which will be developed with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is slated to begin a journey of 3.6 billion kilometers (2.2 billion miles), seven times as long as the flight. The Emirati Hope Probe, which reaches Mars in February 2021. This landing made the UAE the second country to successfully enter Mars orbit on its first attempt. The first is India.
It was the Hope Probe, a $200 million project called “Al Amal” in Arabic Launched on July 20, 2020 from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. The Emirates project has been running for six years, and the small sheikh of the Gulf has made it the fifth country in the world to reach Mars, and the first Arab country to do so.
The UAE Mars Mission has partnered with a team from the University of Colorado to build the Hope spacecraft. But the oil-rich Gulf state itself has spent years investing in space research and development, setting up its own space agency in 2014 after launching satellites in 2009 and 2013 co-developed with South Korean partners.
While it won’t be the first country to make a mission to Venus and land an asteroid, the UAE is known for its big hunts. It is already home to the world’s tallest building, deepest diving pool, largest shopping mall, and a seemingly endless list of destinations designed to enhance its image internationally and promote scientific and technological innovation in a country of 10 million people. people.
“We have set our sights on the stars because our journey towards development and progress has no limits, no boundaries, no boundaries… With each new advancement we make in space, we create opportunities for young people here on Earth, The Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, said the plan was announced by Al Maktoum on Tuesday.
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