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Three robotic spacecraft set to arrive at Mars this month – Sydney Morning Herald
The United Arab Emirates’ orbiter reaches Mars on Tuesday, followed less than 24 hours later by China’s orbiter-rover combo. A week later, NASA’s rover is set to…
We are quite excited as engineers and scientists, at the same time quite stressed and happy, worried, scared, said Omran Sharaf, project manager for the UAE.
All three spacecraft rocketed away within days of one another last July, during an Earth-to-Mars launch window that occurs only every two years. Thats why their arrivals are also close together.
Called Amal, or Hope in Arabic, the Gulf nations spacecraft is seeking an especially high orbit 22,000 kilometres by 44,000 kilometres all the better…
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