Sharjah is Team China's "second home" and has provided its best facilities to help Li Tie's men prepare for their 2022 World Cup qualifiers, according to Eisa Al Hazami, chairman of the Emirati city's sports council.
See you in Mars, China and USA.
Hope Probe is now in Mars orbit and waiting for China’s Tianwen-1 dual orbiter-rover to arrive in Mars on Wedensday (February 10, 2021), while NASA’s Perseverance rover will make a landing attempt in an area on Mars on February 18. All three Mars missions were launched in July last year. The Hope Probe has travelled over 435 million kilometres to Mars after liftoff from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre in July 2020.
The Hope Probe has travelled over 435 million kilometres to Mars after liftoff from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre in July 2020.
08:21PM February 9, 2021
Moment of jubilation. His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, congratulated the young Emirati engineers for successful entry of Hope Probe in Mars orbit.
Dubai: Members of the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) are confident Hope Probe will make a successful interaction with the Red Planet, but they are also getting ready for the 11-minute one-way signal delay during the critical Mars orbit insertion (MOI) on February 9. Hope Probe is scheduled to enter Mars orbit at 7.42pm (UAE time), but the actual insertion will happen around 7.31pm because of the 11-minute delay in communication between the Mars-bound spacecraft and Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in Dubai.
“There is an 11-minute communication delay between the mission control and Hope Probe due to the vast distance between Earth and Mars,” Hamad Eisa Al Hazami, Hope Probe software development engineer and flight director, explained to