35% of the female citizens participating in the project

"Lunar Explorer" includes scientific devices that are used for the first time

Dr. Hamad Al-Marzouki: "We developed new technology that suits the specificity of our mission, based on the experiences of previous missions of international agencies."

The director of the Emirates Lunar Exploration Project, Dr. Hamad Al-Marzouki, revealed that the explorer that the UAE will send to the surface of the moon, under the name of "Rashid", will include scientific devices that allow the detection of aspects not reached by the previous flights of global space agencies, indicating that the devices are used for the first time in this Kind of tasks.

Al-Marzouki pointed out, during a virtual press conference organized by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, yesterday, to reveal the details of the Emirates Moon exploration project, that the project team consists of national cadres, and it has great experiences gained by its members over 14 years of work in the field of space and technologies Robots.

The team includes Emirati women cadres whose percentage exceeds 35% of the total number of its members, and it constitutes a great addition to the project, whether in developing communication technologies, the explorer's thermal system, or the movement system.

He indicated that the number of team members could increase in the future, according to need.

He added: “We are cooperating with different universities and international destinations, from Europe, the United States and Japan, within the framework of the strategic objectives of the project, to study the data that will be provided by the explorer, and various scientific and specialized teams are working to study this data, as the explorer will answer several scientific and technical questions upon his arrival at Moon, and then we build on previous experiences, but each mission has its own, so we have developed new technology that suits the specificity of our mission, relying on the experiences of previous missions of international agencies.

Al-Marzouki stated that the continuous development of technology and reliance on it in the Lunar Surface Explorer mission contributed to reducing the risk of the mission, as the team focused on understanding the potential risks in such tasks, which reach about 40% globally, in order to avoid them and benefit from the errors that Caused previous tasks to fail.

He added that the team developed an initial concept for the explorer, indicating the possibility of changing it with the passage of time and understanding the pros and cons of the design, as there is sufficient time to develop it and arrive at a design commensurate with the scientific and technical objectives of the project.

For his part, Adnan Al Rayes, director of the "Mars 2117" program at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, said that reaching Mars and building a human settlement on its surface would be through reaching the moon as it is closer to Earth, and they will contribute to the development of technology and science that enables us in the future From sending human missions to Mars and building a settlement on its surface.

"The moon exploration project puts us in front of a new challenge, which we will overcome with the efforts of the team," Rayyes added.

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