DUBAI: After sending its first astronaut to space last year, the United Arab Emirates is to launch a probe to Mars in July, state news agency WAM announced Tuesday.
The unmanned probe, named Hope, will be “the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation,” it said.
WAM said the probe would be launched on July 15, at 2051 GMT, from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center, using a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries platform.
It is set to make a 495-million-kilometer (307-million-mile) journey to reach and orbit the Red Planet.
Last September, Hazza Al-Mansouri made history as the first Emirati in space.
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UAE to launch first Arab probe to Mars
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UAE to launch first Arab probe to Mars
- The unmanned probe, named Hope, will be “the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation”
Iran authorities say government building attacked in south
TEHRAN: Several people attacked and damaged a provincial governor’s office in southern Iran on Wednesday, according to authorities quoted by the justice ministry’s Mizan agency, after days of protests over the economy.
“A portion of the provincial governors’ office door and its glass were destroyed in an attack by a number of people,” said Hamed Ostovar, the head of Fasa city’s judiciary, as quoted by Mizan, without specifying how the attack was carried out.
Fasa is located 780 kilometers south of the capital Tehran, where a spontaneous movement against the high cost of living broke out on Sunday among shopkeepers before spreading to some universities.
“A portion of the provincial governors’ office door and its glass were destroyed in an attack by a number of people,” said Hamed Ostovar, the head of Fasa city’s judiciary, as quoted by Mizan, without specifying how the attack was carried out.
Fasa is located 780 kilometers south of the capital Tehran, where a spontaneous movement against the high cost of living broke out on Sunday among shopkeepers before spreading to some universities.
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