Project completion cost: $ 200 million.
Launch date: The probe was successfully launched on July 20, 2020, at 1:58 a.m. UAE local time.
Arrival date: February 9, 2021.
Time to enter the probe in the orbit of capture: 7:42 pm UAE time.
The time of the live broadcast of the probe arrival event: 7 pm and the broadcast will include television stations and all social media platforms.
The national importance of the arrival date of the probe: The arrival of the probe to Mars coincides with the country's celebrations of the fiftieth National Day of the Proclamation of the Union.
The Hope Probe aims to achieve the usual hope of exploring Mars and providing a complete and clear picture of the atmosphere of this planet, with the aim of presenting clear scientific reasons that help to understand our planet, Mars, and other planets in general. By studying the atmosphere of Mars, we can find the reasons that led to the transformation of the planet Mars from an ordinary planet similar to ours to a barren and dry planet.
The Hope Probe project is really the window of hope on which hundreds of millions of individuals from 56 Arab and Islamic countries stand, for with the success of the project, the UAE will score a golden point in the field of Arab scientific and research projects, and this is not new to the UAE, as it is always eager for what is useful and global par excellence. But the Hope Probe in particular represents the great aspirations of the state.
The start of the announcement of the campaign to launch the Al-Amal probe
It began on July 16, 2014, when His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the UAE, and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, announced this scientific project so that the UAE achieved great success at The completion of the mission, and it is ranked fifth among the countries of the world and the first in the Arab world to reach Mars, in order to complete the qualitative scientific program owned by the country to explore the planet Mars, which is called the red planet.
The work stages of the probe from launch to arrival
The launch of the probe includes 6 main stages:
Launching the probe.
Early operations.
Navigation in space.
Entering into a capture orbit.
Moving to the scientific orbit.
The scientific stage includes research, exploration, and data transmission.
The Hope probe had successfully completed the first three stages in July of last year, and it was launched from the Tanegashima Center in Japan onboard an H2A missile. , The probe, via the scientific devices loaded with it, will collect and send all detailed data on Mars.
Devices used by the Al-Amal probe to achieve its scientific purposes
The probe carries 3 innovative scientific instruments on board, in order to convey a comprehensive picture of the climate of Mars and its different layers of the atmosphere, which gives our society a deeper understanding of the special processes within the atmosphere.
The UAE joins the forefront of space exploration in the world
Each stage of the launch requires that it be handled with precision, professionalism, and efficiency by the work team, and before reaching the final stage, all the sub-devices on board the probe will be re-examined and tested, and this confirms the complete accuracy in trying to pass all stages without errors.
In order to successfully complete the mission, half of the fuel in the tanks of the probe will be burned to slow it down to the point that it is allowed to enter the capture ducts. This burning process will continue for approximately 27 minutes to reduce its speed from 121,000 to 18,000 km / h. The probe is also designed to guide Himself at this stage due to the inability of instantaneous communication during it.
Given the challenges that the project has faced since the launch of the probe idea in 2014, the most prominent of which was the Corona pandemic, and the mission to transfer it from Dubai to Japan, where the base of its launch, and it took only 6 years of work, while other missions to reach Mars took between 10-12 years, it should be To raise the hat to the work team and those in charge of this distinguished scientific project.
If the UAE succeeds in reaching the surface of the Red Planet, the Emirates will be the first in the Arab world and the fifth in the world, and it will enter the adult space club from its widest doors.
What distinguishes the launch of the Emirati Arab Hope Probe?
There are approximately 1000 gigabytes of unprecedented information and new data that the probe will collect on the red planet, and it will be deposited securely in the scientific data center in the UAE, and the data will be indexed and analyzed by an elite group of members of the scientific team, which will be available to humanity for the first time. The UAE is willing to share it, free of charge, with the scientific community interested in everything related to Mars glum, in a gesture of it to serve human knowledge.
Another feature that distinguishes the Emirati Al-Amal probe compared to other scientific projects that took place in many countries to try to reach Mars, this project was completed at half the usual cost of similar projects, as the cost as we noted at the beginning reached 200 million dollars, and it is considered among the least expensive projects in The world is all thanks to the efforts of the scientific, research and engineering cadres in the ancient UAE.
What is the most dangerous stage in the journey?
The space mission of the Hope Probe brought a mixture of feelings of confidence and anticipation to those in charge of it and its observers regarding the chances of successfully entering orbit in light of the Emirati spacecraft approaching Mars.
The most important stage in the mission, which was launched in July 2020, is the stage of entering the capture orbit, and it lasts 27 minutes called blind minutes. Failure to perform the maneuver may fail to enter the spacecraft into Mars orbit, or it may lead to a collision with the planet, as happened in the NASA space mission "Mars Climate Orbiter" in 1999.
This stage has been extensively trained, designed, and tested, but the use of propulsion engines at full capacity for a continuous 27-minute period is an unprecedented process in the history of space missions, as it will consume half the fuel the probe carries to slow its thrust at a tremendous speed, currently around 121,000 km/hour.
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