Posted on 07/19/2020 7:13:58 PM PDT by Moonman62
WASHINGTON — A Japanese rocket launched the United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars July 19, an orbiter that will study the planet’s weather while demonstrating the country’s growing space capabilities.
The H-2A rocket lifted off from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 5:58 p.m. Eastern. The launch was originally scheduled for July 14 but delayed five days by poor weather at the launch site.
The rocket’s upper stage released the Emirates Mars Mission, or Hope, spacecraft, nearly an hour after liftoff. The spacecraft contracted controllers shortly after separation.
Hope is a 1,350-kilogram satellite developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the UAE. The spacecraft will arrive at Mars in February 2021 and go into an initial elliptical orbit between 1,000 and 49,380 kilometers above the planet. It will later move into its desired orbit for science observations, with altitudes ranging from 20,000 to 43,000 kilometers.
Development of Hope started in late 2013 as the next phase in the country’s effort to grow its space capabilities, after development of a series of Earth observation spacecraft. “They wanted us to take it to the next level,” said Omran Sharaf, project manager for Hope. “They wanted us to create a career path for scientists.”
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At least (as of now) UAE is allied with Israel against Iran...
So what exactly did the UAE contribute?
“The UAE is not doing Hope entirely on its own. Besides purchasing the H-2A launch from Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, MBRSC partnered with several universities in the United States, such as Arizona State University, the University of California Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado. Those universities collaborated on the spacecraft and its instruments.”
“NASA is also supporting the mission by providing Hope access to the Deep Space Network for communications.”
What a gesture of international friendship it would be for a goodwill VIP team to get on a rocket like that:
Hillary & Bill, Huma, Brenner, Clapper,Comey, the Squad, Warren, Maxine, Pelosi.... On their way to space.
Mention later by a dim radio message to them: It’s one way.
Mooonney! they got the cash, we got the knowledge.
I think any project that steers their population away from killing and raping infidels is a good one.
If there ever is a mosque on Mars, their raping and killing will continue there.
Just my opinion.
This is clearly the result of Barack Obama’s direction to NASA to make “reaching out to the Muslim world” a top priority.
The same thing they always contribute...money. They didn’t really design or launch this probe, just like they didn’t design or build all of those ostentatious buildings in Dubai.
So what exactly did the UAE contribute?
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Money; an idea to make young princelings happy and content. They did as mussulmen historically always do: come up with an idea to make themselves look good, hire all the work out, take credit for whatever it is, then have their lackeys in the media of the day promote their glory and prowess making it sound as if they did whatever it was all by themselves - to wit: “UAE’s Hope mission on its way to Mars”.
I wonder if the will be able to get a photograph of a US flag for Sheila Jackson-Lee...
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