Abu Dhabi (Etihad)
The United Arab Emirates announced a new mission in the field of space that includes building an Emirati spacecraft that will travel 3.6 billion kilometers, during which it will reach the planet Venus and seven asteroids in the solar system, and make a historic landing on the last asteroid in its five-year journey.
This came during an event attended by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi. During which the UAE government announced, among the fifty projects, the unprecedented space project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system, which marks the start of a scientific space journey in deep space to reach Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system, and to achieve the first Arab landing on an asteroid far from a planet The land is 560 million km, making the UAE the first Arab country and the fourth country in the world to send a space mission to Venus and the asteroid belt in the solar system.
The new Emirati space project, which enhances the scientific development process and consolidates the UAE’s position in the field of planetary and deep space exploration, explores the secrets of the formation of the solar system. This is after the UAE succeeded in February 2021 in achieving a historic achievement by sending the first Arab probe to Mars orbit last February, and it was the fifth country in the world to reach the Red Planet.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, affirmed: “The UAE’s space journey is still in its infancy. Our journeys continue. Our explorations will not stop. The ambitions of our youth have no ceiling.” .
His Highness added: “We are not less than others… We have projects to graduate astronauts and astronauts and build space vehicles… A third of the stars in the sky bear Arabic names because the Arabs were pioneers of astronomy.”
His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, said: “The Emirates project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt is a new test of the capabilities of the Emirati youth to achieve Zayed’s ambition in space.”
His Highness added: “Our national cadres and talents, and our academic and research institutions, which have achieved qualitative achievements in the space sector, are able to take on the task of the new space project.”
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, may God protect him, said: “Today, the UAE launched among the 50 projects a new space mission… a mission to explore Venus and 7 other asteroids in the solar system… and implement The first Arab landing on an asteroid at the end of the 3.6 billion km journey (7 times the Hope Probe journey to Mars).
His Highness continued on Twitter: “Our space journey is still in its infancy, and our journeys continue. We have projects of space scientists, astronauts, and spacecrafts. A third of the stars in the sky had Arabic names, because the Arabs were pioneers of science. Astronomy .. Our mission is to resume our Arab civilization .. And if we do not act today, when?”
Emirati event for the future
The event to announce the new Emirati space project, which was held at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, was attended by His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, and His Highness Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and Deputy Prime Minister Minister of Finance, Lt. General H.H. Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior, H.H. Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, and a number of ministers and state officials.
The UAE is launching the space project with its unprecedented scientific goals to enhance the UAE’s contribution to the scientific progress of humanity.
The “UAE mission to explore Venus and the asteroid belt” contributes to the development of advanced technologies and technological innovations that humanity has not known before in various sectors, disciplines and space sciences, to achieve this historical scientific leap of human knowledge.
The mission of the new Emirati spacecraft enhances the development of distinguished Emirati and Arab engineering, technological and research competencies over the years preceding and following the historic moment of the launch of the spacecraft in 2028.
The “UAE mission to explore Venus and the asteroid belt” also benefits from the experiences gained by Emirati national cadres working in the Emirates Mars Exploration Project, “Probe of Hope”, which qualifies them to lead such an ambitious space project, based on what they have accumulated of scientific knowledge and experience over the course of the year. past years.
The mission of the new Emirati spacecraft establishes the UAE’s leadership as a global destination for minds, competencies and qualitative investments in the space exploration and science sector, industries, research and operations related to it. The unprecedented scientific space mission also enhances the UAE’s position as an international knowledge reference in space sciences, an open laboratory for its advanced programs, projects and technologies, and a global center for specialized data and information that provides the outcome of its space missions and knowledge product in this vital space sector for the future of humanity and places it at the service of the global scientific community.
new project
His Excellency Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs, said that the UAE project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt in the solar system is a new future station among the fifty projects that confirm that the UAE always works with ambition that does not know the impossible and ceaseless determination to achieve a better future, and it establishes an era He stressed that the strategic project announced by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan within the “Fifty Projects” will achieve scientific and technological achievements. His Excellency added: “The scientific space flight of the Emirati spacecraft towards Venus and the asteroid belt will carry with it ambitions, innovations, science and the efforts of integrated scientific, engineering and research teams, who will work continuously from now until the launch date to ensure that the UAE space mission is the first in the Arab world and the fourth globally towards Venus and the asteroid belt to scientific goals to record a new chapter in the book of human knowledge.
7 years
The new space project includes sending a spacecraft to explore Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system, and the development of the vehicle will take 7 years, and it will be ready to launch on its space journey, within a launch window set for the beginning of 2028.
The duration of the scientific mission of the Emirates project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt is 5 years, extending from 2028 to 2033.
The UAE project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt is the first Arab space mission of its kind, as it will explore the planet Venus, in addition to collecting unprecedented scientific data on 7 asteroids within the asteroid belt within the solar system, with the vehicle landing on the last of the seven asteroids.
quality results
As for the desired results of the new Emirati space mission, it is to contribute to the development of the country’s scientific and technical capabilities, and reformulate scientific concepts and theories. It will also encourage national cadres to establish specialized projects in science, technology and space-related fields such as space navigation, guidance and control systems, as well as attracting scientific talents and competencies. and technology to the state. The private sector will play an important role in the project, promoting the growth and prosperity of the UAE space sector as a whole.
Programs and projects
In conjunction with the launch of the new mission, a number of national initiatives were announced that support the space sector and its industries in the country and contribute to the development of a new generation of entrepreneurs specialized in the sector. The initiatives include announcing an integrated program to support the establishment of Emirati companies in the space sector specializing in space industries and sciences .
The initiatives accompanying the new Emirati space project also include ensuring that Emirati companies specialized in advanced technological industries obtain contracts within the project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system.
The Emirates project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt is accompanied by the announcement of an integrated national training program to develop the professional industries of citizens and qualify them to establish their own companies to serve the space sector and other related industrial sectors.
cooperation
The project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system cooperates with the most important universities and local and international research centers to support the project with the necessary studies and research, and to conduct all required tests, within the various stages of the project. In the first phase, cooperation will be with the UAE University, Khalifa University, and the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado.
7 times
The billionth journey that the mission of the UAE-Arab space project, the first of its kind, has traveled represents seven times the journey of the Emirates Mars exploration project, the “Probe of Hope”, which succeeded in traveling 493 million kilometers in deep space to reach the orbit of the red planet.
Unique design
There are a set of factors that will be taken into account when designing the Emirati spacecraft for the new 5-year mission, due to its nature and the conditions surrounding the asteroid belt, including providing the spacecraft with different thermal and mechanical packaging, due to its direct exposure to solar radiation and high temperatures, as it will be closer A point for the spacecraft from the sun at a distance of 109 million km, in addition to providing the spacecraft with special navigation, guidance and control systems due to its transit through a nebula of celestial bodies, with special techniques to operate the spacecraft with very little solar energy when it is away on its journey from the sun by a distance of 440 million km .
A new historical space mission
Her Excellency Sarah bint Youssef Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology and President of the UAE Space Agency, confirmed that the UAE project to explore the planet Venus and the asteroid belt within the solar system, thanks to the support of the wise leadership and the efforts of the sons of Zayed, will guide a bright future full of achievements in the field of space science, as a new initiative in the march The UAE scientific state and its journey to explore space reinforce the position of the UAE space sector, the largest in the region in terms of investments and the size of projects. She added, “This is a new historic space mission for the UAE to be the fourth country in the world to send a mission to Venus and the asteroid belt.” Her Excellency indicated that the importance of the new Emirati space mission lies in its contribution to the collection of unprecedented scientific data on the formation of planets in the solar system, so that the UAE contributes to revealing this scientific information that allows humanity to have a deeper understanding of the universe and the solar system.
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