The Hope Probe begins its scientific missions after its arrival at Mars

 Sarah bint Youssef Al-Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology and Chairperson of the Emirates Space Agency, confirmed that the success of the "Hope Probe" in reaching Mars is the beginning of a series of unprecedented scientific missions that will provide an integrated picture of the Martian atmosphere for the first time in human history, and put its data at the service of society Scientific world.

This came during the press conference held by the Emirates Mars Exploration Project "Probe of Hope" and organized by the Information Office of the UAE Government at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Al Khawaneej in Dubai, in the presence of Her Excellency Sarah Bint Yousef Al Amiri and Eng. Omran Sharaf, Director of the Emirates Project to Explore Mars "The Hope Probe" One day after the probe succeeded in reaching a capture orbit around the red planet.

The conference shed light on the next stages that the "Probe of Hope" will pass throughout its mission to explore the Red Planet over a full Martian year equivalent to 687 days on the Earth's calendar.

Sarah Al-Amiri said: "We congratulate everyone in the UAE and all Arab peoples for this historic achievement, which was the result of nearly seven years of work within an integrated program for knowledge transfer .. The innovative approach adopted by the UAE has been successful and constituted a qualitative addition to the space exploration sector in the world."

She added, "The arrival of the Al-Amal probe to the capture orbit on February 9, 2021 was the ideal scenario that the probe team looked forward to over years of planning, design, innovation and testing, and provided a new methodology for entering space missions into the orbit of Mars."

Regarding the Emirati cadres that accomplished the first Arab Mars mission, Her Excellency said: “The scientific team was developed from Emirati cadres in cooperation with knowledge partners, who worked on distinguished research in outer space focusing mainly on Mars, and they are ready today to start receiving, analyzing and providing scientific data on Reach of the global scientific community. "

She praised the engineering team who designed the innovative reverse propulsion system developed by Emirati competencies and worked for 27 continuous minutes, stressing that the experiences of Emirati cadres in the space sector were crystallized by the UAE project to explore Mars.

She said that the next stages of the historic "Probe of Hope" mission, which has unprecedented scientific goals in human history, will provide the global scientific community with comprehensive data on the red planet's atmosphere and the causes of its climate change.

She emphasized that the scientific team of the Hope Probe that Emirati minds and arms have worked on in cooperation with knowledge partners have full readiness to receive and analyze the new scientific data that it will collect over the course of a full Martian year.

She explained that the competencies and young cadres included in the work team of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project have the capabilities and capabilities to build an integrated scientific database that serves as a common global platform for the transfer of knowledge and the sharing of vital scientific data.

Sarah Al-Amiri pointed out that the Emirates Mars Exploration Project will share the most important scientific information and data that it receives with scientific and research institutions around the world, in line with its strategy to enhance international cooperation and strategic partnerships in the space exploration sector and the science and technology associated with it for the sake of the human future.

She noted the importance of the thermal system developed by Al-Amal probe engineers to adapt to the very changing thermal environments throughout its journey in space, in addition to the development of advanced scientific devices on board the probe, which all constituted new qualitative innovations, and also praised the competence of the strategic team that contributed to expanding the scientific and knowledge impact The UAE project to explore Mars and reach the largest possible segment of interested people locally and internationally.

Regarding the scientific data that the Hope Probe will collect, Sarah Al-Amiri said, "The data will be shared with the global scientific community, starting in September 2021, without charge, in order to enhance human knowledge."

On the importance of the mission to the Emirati scientific community, she said: “Local universities will benefit from the UAE project to explore Mars to enable more young Emirati competencies in the space sectors, pointing out that new questions will be added that the mission of Hope Probe can answer depending on the state of the probe and its equipment during that period. Temporal. "

Sarah Al-Amiri added, "The next step after the Al-Amal probe is to develop a competitive space sector in the UAE, which will contribute to achieving a diversified economy based on knowledge, innovation and advanced technology, stressing that most of the probe team members are Emirati graduates from UAE universities."

Al-Amiri concluded by saying that the impact of the "Probe of Hope" mission is invaluable for the future of the UAE and its ambition for the next fifty years with its generations of all age groups, to confirm the slogan that it raises, nothing is impossible.

- Follow-up of a million.

On February 9, 2021, millions in the UAE, the Arab world and the world watched the historic moments of the Hope Probe entering the capture orbit around Mars after it traveled 493 million kilometers in space, through direct transmission from television stations, Internet sites and social media platforms, in an introduction to the start of its scientific missions and collecting New data will be shared free of charge with the scientific community and those interested in space from universities and research centers around the world.

- The scientific orbit stage.

The next stage of Hope's journey includes moving from the capture orbit around Mars to a suitable scientific orbit around the Red Planet so that it can perform its planned scientific missions, 1,000 km above the surface of Mars and 49,380 km away from it.

It is necessary for the scientific orbit to be elliptical for the success of the mission, while the duration of one cycle around the red planet takes about 40 hours in this penultimate stage of the probe's journey.

With the "Probe of Hope" able to successfully overcome these challenges, it is taking the first image of Mars through its scientific equipment, while it is in orbit.

Next steps.

Engineer Omran Sharaf, Director of the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, "The Hope Probe", said, as part of his briefing on the next stages of the mission of the Hope Probe after it successfully entered the capture orbit around Mars: "We confirm that the" Hope probe "has performed its tasks to the fullest to enter the capture orbit around Mars ".

Imran Al-Sharaf emphasized that the UAE did not start from scratch, but rather from where others ended, and learned from their experiences, and while some view space missions as a race, the UAE viewed the mission as a scientific cooperation, and cooperated with knowledge partners as one team under one identity, which is the identity of “Mesbar”. Hope, "which enabled the probe during the development of the probe to conduct more than 100 design tests and more than 100 thousand simulations for all scenarios of the capture stage during the past two years, in order to simplify the design to the best possible model to date.

He added: "The ground station at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Al Khawaneej area in Dubai is following the movement of the probe first-hand to continue its next tasks, as daily contact with the earth station has been scheduled, which enables the work team to carry out the operations of downloading the chain of command and data of various operations in an orderly manner."

Sharaf confirmed that the three advanced scientific devices on board the Al-Amal probe have been programmed to collect various information and data on the layers of the Martian atmosphere and then send them to the project's scientific team for analysis and study, saying: “All the subsystems on board the probe were re-examined and tested before moving to the stage. Scientific during which the first contact with the probe will be made.

He said, "The team has succeeded in overcoming the most dangerous stage of the Hope Probe journey, stressing that the strategic goal of the project is to empower Emirati youth and create an environment that stimulates research and development, saying:" This project is a project for the future of the UAE, and currently communication with the probe is done 24 hours. " Sharaf pointed out that the project was a challenge for the project team to be ready for all possibilities, devoting the culture of determination, persistence and achievement both locally and in the Arab world, noting that everyone in the UAE was proud of the mission of Probe Al Amal and was ready for any result achieved.

Engineer Sharaf detailed the most difficult stage before the Al-Amal probe entered the capture orbit, saying that it was the most difficult time. Three teams were working together in full coordination in the operating room, which is the control team that makes sure that the probe carries out the orders, and the engineering team that designed the probe that processes the data that It arrives from the probe and makes sure of its health, and the operations and navigation team that sets plans and operations for the probe for the coming days. "

He added that everyone was ready and there was a fourth reserve team to support the three teams in the probe operations room at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Al-Khawaneej in Dubai, and that the probe team made the first evaluation, then the second and the third, so that the operation ended at 8:8 pm UAE time, followed by the announcement of the arrival of the probe. To orbit capture successfully.

Eng. Sharaf said that the next stage now is the transition from the initial orbit to the scientific orbit, which lasts for nearly two months to ensure the correctness of all devices to calibrate the data in them if necessary, followed by modifying the path slightly if it is necessary for the probe to enter its scientific orbit, pointing out that the most difficult stage The process has passed and is now considerably easier due to the probe being located within Mars' gravitational region.

Eng. Sharaf said that the mission of the Hope Probe took advantage of the antennas and laboratories available at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center and around the world, which significantly reduced the cost of the project and accelerated its completion in a record time, noting that scientific and space diplomacy are among the most prominent prospects and opportunities for future cooperation established by the MISBAR project. Hope.

Regarding his feelings upon the arrival of the first Arab Mars mission to the Red Planet, Sharaf said: "The moment of successfully reaching orbit was a positive shock, and we want there to be an Emirati contribution to the scientific data that the Hope Probe collects to send humans to Mars, even if that is a long-term goal." ".

Imran concluded that the presence of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, "may God protect him", His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince Dubai's entrustment to the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in the most difficult stages of the Hope Project, and its live broadcasting in full transparency confirms the success approach and the distinguished model adopted by the UAE and the proximity of the leadership to the people of the Emirates and their aspirations in the big country with its ambition that does not know the impossible.

- Media partner.

Sarah Al-Amiri and Eng. Omran Sharaf praised the distinguished efforts of the local, regional and international media in the UAE to keep pace with the arrival of the "Probe of Hope" project to Mars, with high professionalism and unprecedented momentum at the regional level for this kind of scientific mission.

- Final stage.

After the scientific orbit phase is completed, the Hope probe begins the sixth and final phase, which is the scientific phase, during which the “Hope probe” takes an elliptical orbit around Mars at an altitude ranging between 20,000 to 43,000 km, and the probe takes 55 hours to complete a full orbit around Mars.

Comprehensive monitoring.

The advanced devices carried by the Hope Probe will monitor during the scientific stage everything related to how the weather of Mars changes throughout the day and between the seasons of the Martian year, in addition to studying the causes of the disappearance of hydrogen and oxygen gases from the upper layer of the Martian atmosphere, which constitute the basic units for the formation of water molecules, as well as Investigate the relationship between the lower and upper layers of the atmosphere, and monitor weather phenomena, such as dust storms, and temperature changes, as well as the diversity of climate patterns according to its varied topography.

- Success .

The probe has succeeded in overcoming many unprecedented challenges at the logistical, scientific and operational levels, the most dangerous of which was the stage of entering the capture orbit, which was successfully completed on the evening of Tuesday February 9, 2021, after the precise slowdown of the speed of "Probe of Hope" by using the propulsion engines for 27 minutes from 121,000 km / An hour to 18,000 km / h allowed it to safely enter the capture orbit, and cleared the way for the next two stages of the probe entering its scientific orbit around Mars and the start of their scientific missions that continue for a full Martian year.

- Top.

With the arrival of the Probe of Hope to the orbit of Mars, the UAE became the fifth country in the world to achieve this historic achievement, and it inspired millions of young generations to specialize in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and set world records in the space exploration sector, to join the club of countries that enrich knowledge Mankind in Space Sciences.

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