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Arab world’s first mission to Mars achieves orbit
The Arab world’s history-making first interplanetary mission to Mars – the United Arab Emirates Hope Probe – successfully achieved orbit today, Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 10:57 a.m. ET (19:57 UAE time, 1557 GMT),” after a seven-month journey bound for the Red Planet and designed to study the planet’s weather and climate, and inspire the nations young people to study science.
Hope is the first of three missions reaching the Red Planet this month. The UAE thus commences Earth’s powerful Invasion of Mars in 2021 with an international fleet of orbiters, landers, and rovers launched from the UAE, the United States and China.