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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
21:58:14
Sunday July 19, 2020
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Official Livestream
First Emirati Mars mission. First Martian mission sent by H-IIA rocket.
The Hope Mars Mission (Arabic: مسبار الأمل) also called Emirates Mars Mission, is a planned space exploration probe mission to Mars funded by the United Arab Emirates and built by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, the University of Colorado, and Arizona State University. The probe will study the climate daily and through seasonal cycles, the weather events in the lower atmosphere such as dust storms, as well as the weather on Mars different geographic areas. The probe will attempt to answer the scientific community questions of why Mars atmosphere is losing hydrogen and oxygen into space and the reason behind Mars drastic climate changes.
Heliocentric Orbit
1 Payload
1,350 kilograms
42nd
Mission
2nd
Mission of 2020
1st
Mission of 2020
53rd
Orbital launch attempt