The team of the Emirates Project for Exploring Mars, "Probe of Hope", stated that the shelf life of the satellite is four years, during which it works to achieve a number of scientific goals on the surface of the red planet, the most prominent of which is to provide a comprehensive study on the climate of Mars and its different layers of the atmosphere to give this study scientists a look Deeper than the past and future of the planet, as well as the possibilities of finding life on Mars and other planets, and studying the reasons for the erosion of the atmosphere on the surface of Mars by tracking the behaviors and path of exit of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, which are the basic units for forming water molecules.
This came in response to a question by "Emirates Today" about the life span of the Hope Probe, during the press conference of the team of the probe team in the Emirates, "the team of the operations center in the ground station at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center."
Deputy Director of Operations Center for the Probe of Hope, Eng. Zakaria Al Shamsi, said: “The Operations Center team is divided into three groups, the first to control the probe by sending orders and receiving information, and the second is planning the mission before sending these orders, and the third is the navigation team and study the orbits and the path that the probe will take Hope and the fourth is the software team that works to develop programs that control the satellite, "explaining that" the role of the team at the time of launch from the earth station at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, is to receive the first signal from the probe and obtain information and send the first orders to the probe and then the team will conduct 30-day experiences. "
The leader of the engineering model development team for the probe, Engineer Ali Al Suwaidi, said that his team’s role is to build and develop the engineering model for the probe, and the team will be part of controlling the vehicle until it reaches the red planet.
Engineer Ahmed Wali, one of the engineers of the control room team, explained that he worked in the planning department at the beginning of the project, where the team planned the operations and orders that will be in the mission, and engineer Omar Hussein of the navigation and mission design team for the probe, participated in the task design and installation of the navigation device, and currently his work will be Is to know the location of the satellite during its voyage.
Engineer Hamad Al-Hazami works as a developer of operations software in the probe, and his work includes several main tasks, the first task is to develop the software that the operations team uses to send orders to the probe, receive data and analyze it, and the second task is computer network engineering at the main operations center in Dubai, and overseeing Processing, last job and operator orders and control work during launch period and first stage of operations.
One of the tasks that I did was to develop the work mechanism in the operations center according to international standards, and it was a series of integration tests for the ground part, among which was a conformance test "The probe systems with the earth station, and our mission during the launch is to follow the procedures and application of space operation plans at the time of contact with the probe to receive the first signal from it, and send orders to it."
The head of space operations software development, Eng. Mahmoud Al-Nasser, stated that he manages the stages of space operation software development, which are based on sending orders to the probe and receiving information from it, and analyzing it, in addition to overseeing the establishment of the infrastructure of the operations center that will be used at the time of launch of the probe.