06 October 2021
UAE aims to flyby Venus and land on an asteroid in new 5yr mission
... Amiri, Chairwoman of the UAE Space Agency. "This can’t be done by going steady-state, this requires leaps in imagination, in faith and the pursuit of goals that go beyond prudent or methodical. "When we embarked on the Emirates Mars Mission, we took...
10 February 2021
Success for China as Tianwen-1 enters Mars' orbit
... second craft to do so in as many days and the country’s first such interplanetary mission to reach the Red Planet. Like the UAE’s Hope Probe Mars Orbital Insertion (MOI) yesterday, China’s five-tonne spacecraft also preformed a burn of its engines...
23 July 2020
China's Tianwen-1 Mars mission launches successfully
... 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Along with Perseverance and Tianwen-1, the UAE's Hope mission makes up the trio of missions heading to Mars this month, Perseverance is the successor to NASA’s Curiosity rover, and will head to the...
