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UAE Mars Mission: Hope probe makes first vital course correction – The National
Spacecraft’s six Delta-V thrusters fired for the first time to adjust path to Mars
The UAE’s first spacecraft headed for Mars has successfully adjusted its trajectory to ensure the probe remains on course.
Completion of the probe’s first trajectory correction manoeuvre involved firing the Hope probe’s six Delta-V thrusters for the first time in its seven-month journey to the Red Planet.
Emirates Mars Mission project director, Omran Sharaf, described the event as a “major milestone for us”.
“Not only because it is the first time we have deployed the spacecrafts Delta-V thrus…
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