The United Arab Emirates, which earlier this year launched a mission to Mars, says it plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024.
The United Arab Emirates is sending a spacecraft into orbit around Mars, the first interplanetary mission from the Arab world.
Sheik Mohammed said the rover would be named Rashid, after his late father, Sheik Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. Sheikh Rashid was one of the original founding rulers of the UAE, a federation of seven sheikdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.Sheik Mohammed made his Twitter announcement after a closed-door meeting with other Emirati officials. State media photographs of the meeting showed him and others wearing masks because of the coronavirus pandemic.
If successful in 2024, and presuming no new nation accomplishes the feat before then, the UAE would become the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon, after the U.S., the Soviet Union and. India tried and failed to land a spacecraft last year. Israel also saw its own small spacecraft crash into the lunar surface last year before touchdown, failing in an ambitious attempt to make history with the first privately funded lunar landing.
The UAE’s Mars probe is set to reach the red planet in February 2021, the year the UAE celebrates 50 years since the country’s formation. The following September, Amal is expected to start transmitting data on the Martian atmosphere, which will be made available to the international scientific community, officials say.
A successful mission to the moon would be a major step for the oil-dependent economy as it seeks a future in space. The UAE also has set the ambitious goal of
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