Al'amal — launch
Date in UTC
Hope, the spacecraft of the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission, launched from Japan on July 19, 2020 UTC, corresponding to July 20 locally. It was designed to observe the Martian atmosphere and weather at different times of day and across seasons. The spacecraft entered Mars orbit in February 2021. Its instruments examine the lower atmosphere and the escape of hydrogen and oxygen from the upper atmosphere.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Mars_Mission. Related NASA reference: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/landing/more_on_mars/.
- Category
- Launches and Flight Tests
- Type
- Orbital launch
- Subjects
- Space transportation
- Mission
- Al'amal
- Organization
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (Launch Services)
- Vehicle
- H-IIA 202
- Location
- Tanegashima Space Center, Tanegashima, Nippon
- Country
- JP
- Outcome
- Successful
Sources and attribution
- Jonathan McDowell — General Catalog of Artificial Space Objects (opens in a new tab) — Data from GCAT (J. McDowell, planet4589.org/space/gcat), CC BY 4.0. Adapted into anniversary records. (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikipedia — Hope (opens in a new tab) — Factual synthesis based on the cited Wikipedia and NASA pages; original editorial wording. (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Timeline of Space Exploration Missions 1957 to 2031 (opens in a new tab)
- NASA — Hope (opens in a new tab)
- NASA NSSDCA — Hope (opens in a new tab)