In the year 1441 AH of the Islamic calendar, the Emirates are going for blast off into the 21st century!
"It will launch sometime during a three-week window starting on 15 July. ... The rapidly assembled team of engineers, with an average age of 27, frequently heard the same jibe. “You guys are a bunch of kids. How are you going to reach Mars?” says Sarah Al Amiri, originally a computer engineer and the science lead for the project. ... Six years on, Al Amiri beamed as she admired the country’s fully assembled Mars orbiter while it underwent tests in February. ... Al Amiri, who is also the country’s minister for advanced sciences. ... Women make up 34% of the team ... and 80% of the mission’s scientists. And the UAE government is now mulling involvement in future Moon missions and considering setting up the country’s first national grant-funding programme."
How a small Arab nation built a Mars mission from scratch in six year The United Arab Emirates’ Hope orbiter is the Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft — and has jump-started science in the country. Will the momentum last?
Sarah Al Amiri is science lead for the mission
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