The UAE successfully put a probe in orbit around Mars
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10 February 2021, 3:22 am·2-min read
The United Arab EmiratesHope mission, its $200 million project to send a satellite into orbit around Mars, has been a success. It means that the UAE is the fifth body to reach Mars, after the US, Russia, the European Union and India.
Hope was launched last July from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, carried on the back of a Mitsubishi H-2A rocket. It has taken seven months to reach its destination, arriving shortly ahead of rival missions from both China and the US.