The United Arab Emirates is setting a course for Venus and the main asteroid belt. The new interplanetary mission, announced by the UAE Space Agency on Tuesday, will launch in 2028.
The spacecraft will go on a five-year expedition, orbiting Venus and Earth before reaching the main asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter in 2030. There, it will observe seven asteroids before landing on an asteroid that is 347 million miles from Earth in 2033. If its mission is successful, the UAE will become the fourth nation to land a spacecraft on an asteroid. This illustration shows the dwarf planet Ceres and asteroids in the main asteroid belt.The mission will travel a total of 2.
The new mission will travel seven times the distance that took the Hope Probe to Mars."Our goal is clear: to accelerate the development of innovation and knowledge-based enterprises in the Emirates," said Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Sciences and Chair of the UAE Space Agency, in a statement."This can't be done by going steady-state, this requires leaps in imagination, in faith and the pursuit of goals that go beyond prudent or methodical.
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