6 stages of the satellite from its launch until the completion of its mission

The "Probe of Hope" cuts half the way to Mars

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The "Hope Probe" team at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center revealed that the probe had covered a distance of approximately 215 million 525 thousand and 997 kilometers, within 79 days, since its launch on its journey to Mars, on the 20th of last July, about half the distance. To its orbit around the red planet (Mars), as the distance traveled represents about 44.86% of the way to orbit.

The probe successfully completed the launch phase and the first operations, its first guidance operation on August 11, and its second guidance operation on the 28th of the same month.

He has to cross 264 million 966 thousand and 403 kilometers, to reach his final goal.

This came during a virtual media briefing organized by the team yesterday, in which he explained that the mission of the probe passes during its journey to the Red Planet with six basic stages, namely the launch phase, which began after the final preparation of the spacecraft was completed, and the procedures for reducing the thrust of the vehicle, and ends after the completion of the communication The first is with a probe.

And the second phase (early operations) that began after the end of the launch phase and lasted for about 45 days, and ends after evaluating the performance of the probe equipment in space, and it witnesses continuous communication from the ground station at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center with the probe, confirming that "the probe is working with high efficiency."

As for the third stage (the journey to Mars), regular operations begin to follow the probe, and extend until it enters the Mars field, and it is contacted 2 to 3 times a week from the ground station.

And the fourth stage (entering the orbit of Mars), and it begins after the end of the flight in space, and ends when the navigation team confirms that the probe has entered the capture orbit.

And the fifth stage (moving to the scientific orbit), and it starts after the probe enters its orbit around Mars, and in it several maneuvers are made to move to the last orbit.

And the sixth stage (scientific orbit) and will continue for a full Martian year (equivalent to 687 Earth days, or about two Earth years), during which the planned scientific data is captured.

The director of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project (Probe of Hope), Engineer Omran Sharaf, stated that the project team consists of groups of engineers working on its implementation, namely the ground station and control operations team, the launch team, the strategic planning team, the scientific team, the probe development team, and a management team The project, in addition to the "operations" and "probe development" teams, which work to ensure its correctness, direct it, send orders to it, conduct many tests, and plan for weekly and daily operations based on the information obtained from the probe. The scientific team is working to ensure that The scientific instruments in the probe are operating as planned.

He pointed out that the probe takes many pictures during its journey to reach Mars, with a microscopic tracking device.

The deputy project manager, Suhail Al Dhafri, confirmed that the probe is in excellent condition, and its scientific equipment is working with high efficiency, adding that the past period witnessed a great effort from the various teams working on the project to verify the safety of the probe, its equipment, and its systems, which include navigational, communication and other systems, while it was in The space.

He stated that there are several factors that determine the duration of the probe's journey to Mars, stressing that the delay in launching the probe from July 15 to the 20 of the same month did not negatively affect its completion of the plans on time.

Zakaria Al Shamsi, deputy director of operations for the "Hope Probe", said: "We are working during the stage of the probe entering the gravity of Mars to reduce its speed so that it can orbit around the planet.

We conducted multiple experiments on Earth, before the probe was launched, and this is considered the most difficult stage after the launch stage, after which the probe moves to the scientific orbit to collect information about the planet through scientific devices, and the duration of this stage will be a Martian year.

The Emirates Mars Exploration Project constitutes an inspiring success story in which an elite of young national cadres participated in the leadership of this pioneering historical project that delineates the first Arab and Islamic mission to the Red Planet.

The "Probe of Hope" is scheduled to reach its orbit around the Red Planet by February next year.

Despite the "Covid-19" pandemic, the "Probe Al-Amal" team showed amazing efficiency in adapting to the new situation and restructuring its implementation plans very quickly, which culminated in the successful launch on July 20, 2020.

The design and construction team of the probe within the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, which includes 200 Emirati cadres qualified in the fields of engineering, technology and space sciences, succeeded in accelerating the completion of the construction of the “Hope Probe” within only six years. It began in 2015 in a project that, in normal cases, takes more than a decade. Of time, and within the framework of a budget that is the least expensive of its kind compared to its global counterpart.

200 new technologies

Mwatana cadres follow up the journey of the "Hope Probe" through the ground control station in Al Khawaneej in Dubai at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, which oversees the various control and communication operations with the probe, since its launch from Tanegashima, Japan.

Ground control station engineers receive signals, messages, data and scientific information from the probe.

The UAE mission to explore Mars saw the creation of 200 new technologies while working on the "Hope Probe", preparing 51 scientific research papers, and designing and building 66 pieces of the probe inside the UAE.

The climate of the red planet

The data collected by the Hope Probe, around the clock during a full Martian year of nearly two terrestrial years, will provide an unprecedented wealth of knowledge that the UAE places within the reach of more than 200 academic and research institutions around the world, to draw a clear picture of the climate, daily weather, terrain and varying degrees of the Red Planet. Heat on its surface and atmospheric phenomena.

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Almost a million kilometers the distance covered by the probe in 79 days.

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