Status
Success
Rocket
Mission Details
Al-Amal (Hope)
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.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 1,350.0 kg
Heliocentric Orbit
Location
LA-Y1, Tanegashima Space Center, Japan
Stats
2020
53rd orbital launch attempt
H-IIA
42nd mission
2nd mission of 2020
41st successful mission
36th consecutive successful mission