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UAE Plans to Send First Arab Spaceship to Mars by 2021

posted by janrinok on Thursday July 17 2014, @01:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the good-luck-with-that-voyage dept.

AnonTechie writes:

At a time when space exploration has become a competition between world powers, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to send an unmanned probe to Mars by 2021, which will be the Arab world's first mission to another planet.

A new UAE Space Agency will be created to coordinate the UAE's growing space technology sector and to supervise the mission. The mission will be led by Emiratis and will expand the nation's human capital through knowledge transfer from international partners, as well as increasing human knowledge about space exploration and distant planets.

"The UAE Mars probe represents the Islamic world's entry into the era of space exploration. We will prove that we are capable of delivering new scientific contributions to humanity," UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in a statement Wednesday.

Do you think this is likely? I do not know of any country which was able to launch such missions in only 7 years.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Tork on Thursday July 17 2014, @06:58PM

    by Tork (3914) on Thursday July 17 2014, @06:58PM (#70410)

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Thursday July 17 2014, @07:24PM

    by Jeremiah Cornelius (2785) on Thursday July 17 2014, @07:24PM (#70426) Journal

    GOOD COMEDY?

    OK, find the Qibla [wikipedia.org], and point to the Kaaba, in Mecca, from Meridiani Planum [wikipedia.org].

    Degrees of precision? Off by an angstrom, and you focus prayers on Arcturus or the interstellar void.

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