The Emirates Mars Exploration Project has reported that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the manufacturer of the H2A rocket, carrying the UAE Hope Probe, has set 6 major climate and weather standards to take a decision to determine the launch date of the missile, in consultation with the Emirates Space Agency and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Center For space, the first of which is “the wind speed in the launch zone should not exceed 20.9 m / s, and the second is that the rate of rainfall does not exceed 8 mm / hour, while the third criterion is the absence of cumulative clouds in the planned path of the flight.”
It is scheduled to launch the probe of hope towards its orbit on the planet Mars at exactly 6:58 am tomorrow, Monday, Tokyo time 1:58 a.m. Emirates time.
The list of the six criteria also included the absence of an atmosphere discharge in the flight path, and that no lightning occurred within 10 km of the launch site, in addition to not noticing any lightning within the first 20 km of the rocket-carrying track of the probe.
The launch of the Hope Probe was postponed due to bad weather conditions on the Japanese island of Tanagashima, after it was scheduled to be launched on the fifteenth of this month, which is the first day within the "launch window" for this historic space mission, which runs from 15 July to 03 Next August.
According to the Emirates Project for Exploring Mars, the weather conditions played an important and pivotal role in determining the launch date of the carrier rocket for the Hope Probe, due to its significant impact, especially in the upper atmosphere, on the chances of a safe ascent of the missile, explaining that before the launch process, weather conditions and weather conditions are verified Periodically and continuously.
He stated that the air condition of the missile launch zone is subject to a careful evaluation process five hours before the launch date, and then another evaluation process one hour before takeoff to confirm the possibility of proceeding with the decision to launch the probe in time.