Venus and asteroid landing

Dubai, United Arab Emirates-On Tuesday, the United Arab Emirates announced plans to explore Venus and land on the asteroid before the end of the next decade, outlining its new ambitions After the first mission to Mars.

The mission’s spacecraft will take seven years to build, and the launch date is planned for 2028. It will orbit Venus, then Earth, and use gravity to assist maneuvering to reach an asteroid belt object in 2030. The vehicle will then observe seven main belt asteroids, and then land on an asteroid 560 million kilometers (347 million miles) from Earth in 2033.

Since the 1960s, the Venus mission has begun, and the Soviet Union, the United States, the European Space Agency and Japan have successfully orbited the second planet around the sun.

The mission, which will be developed by the Atmospheric Science and Physics Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder, will begin a 3.6 billion kilometers (2.2 billion miles) journey, seven times longer than the previous journey. The UAE hopes the probe will reach Mars in February 2021The landing made the UAE the second country to successfully enter the orbit of Mars for the first time. The first is India.

The Hope Survey is a $200 million project, called “Al Amal” in Arabic. Launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan on July 20, 2020The UAE project lasted six years, making this small Gulf emirate the fifth country in the world to reach Mars and the first country in the Arab world to do so.

The Emirates Mars mission worked with a team from the University of Colorado to build the Hope spacecraft. But the oil-rich Gulf country itself has spent several years investing in space research and development. After launching satellites jointly developed with South Korean partners in 2009 and 2013, it established its own space agency in 2014.

Although it will not be the first country to perform a mission to land on Venus and asteroids, the UAE is known for its grand pursuits. It already has the world’s tallest building, the deepest diving pool, the largest shopping mall, and a seemingly endless list of grand goals, designed to enhance its international image and promote technological innovation in this country of 10 million people.

“We set our sights on the stars, because our journey of development and progress knows no borders, borders and restrictions… With every new advancement we make in space, we have created opportunities for young people on earth. ,” UAE Prime Minister and Chief of Dubai Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum spoke of the plan on Tuesday.