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#40
by
eeergo
on 19 Feb, 2020 06:10
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#41
by
zubenelgenubi
on 21 Apr, 2020 19:46
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UAE Mars mission to ship to launch site, dated April 20
Al Amal (
Hope in English) ships to Japan on April 20--this was originally planned for May. Plans changed due to pandemic.
Preparation for the launch had been going well, Omran Sharaf, project director for the mission, said in an April 17 presentation at an online meeting of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG). The spacecraft completed environmental testing in the United States last December and was then transported to Dubai for a final set of tests.
Original plans called for completing those tests in May, then shipping the spacecraft to the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan for final launch preparations. The pandemic, though, led mission management to move up the ship date to April 20.
Paraphrase:
Pandemic restrictions for international travel into Japan include two weeks of self-quarantine after arrival. An advance group of engineers preceded the spacecraft so that they would be out of quarantine and begin work immediately upon
Hope's arrival.
Sharaf re: testing in Dubai:
Moving up the ship date, he said, means that some spacecraft tests won’t be performed. “We had to focus only on the critical testing and remove the additional testing,” he said. “It would have been good to have some of these tests, but we had to focus on completing the critical ones.”
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#42
by
Rondaz
on 27 Apr, 2020 13:35
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#43
by
zubenelgenubi
on 28 Apr, 2020 21:57
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The launch campaign thread is in the Japanese Launches sub-forum
here. Launch campaign updates and discussion belong there, not here.
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#44
by
PM3
on 29 Apr, 2020 11:07
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The
NSF article cites the techincal specs as shown on the
Hope website: 2.37 x 2.90 meters size, 1500 kg weight, 600 W solar panels, 1,5 m diameter antenna etc. BUT that data corresponds to
this outdated concept of 2015, showing a hexagonal spacecraft with thee solar panels. The actual probe as built and shown in the NSF article looks very different. E.g. measured by the people in the picture, the antenna diameter seems to be >= 2 m, not 1,5 m. So I assume that all the data @
https://www.mbrsc.ae/emirates-mars-mission are old stuff which was not properly updated.
Maybe there is some paper out there that describes the actual spacecraft?
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#45
by
Llian Rhydderch
on 20 Jul, 2020 02:08
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Hope Mars mission successfully launched today.
Looking for the thread(s) that will cover the spacecraft in heliocentric orbit during its 6 month flight to Mars. Is that this thread?
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#46
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zubenelgenubi
on 20 Jul, 2020 02:09
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Interplanetary flight to Mars will be covered in this thread, yes.
Operations at Mars, assuming all goes well, will also be covered in this thread.
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#47
by
spacexplorer
on 21 Jul, 2020 08:58
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#48
by
Svetoslav
on 23 Jul, 2020 10:50
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#49
by
Yeknom-Ecaps
on 20 Aug, 2020 02:20
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Since this is a deep space mission - what network is tracking the spacecraft - Japan? NASA/JPL/DSN? ESA? Russia? China?
Some combination?
thanks!
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#50
by
Steven Pietrobon
on 20 Aug, 2020 06:11
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Since the spacecraft was largely made in the US, I would expect the DSN to be used. This capture shows EMM (Emirates Mars Mission) as one of the spacecraft using the DSN.
https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
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#51
by
FutureSpaceTourist
on 03 Sep, 2020 10:19
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#52
by
Yeknom-Ecaps
on 09 Nov, 2020 04:22
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Anyone know what happened to TCM2? TCM-1 was announced in August and now TCM-3 on Nov. 8.
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#53
by
otter
on 09 Nov, 2020 07:12
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#54
by
quasarquantum
on 04 Feb, 2021 14:46
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#55
by
spacexplorer
on 04 Feb, 2021 19:52
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#56
by
hoku
on 08 Feb, 2021 10:14
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Orbit insertion burn for the Emirates Hope spacecraft is scheduled to start tomorrow, Feb. 9, at 15:14 UTC. Burn is expected to last 27 min. The UAE space agency is planning to provide live coverage:
https://www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/liveCurrent distance between Earth and Mars is about 1.26 A.U., corresponding to a light travel time of 10.5 minutes.
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#57
by
otter
on 08 Feb, 2021 10:26
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#58
by
otter
on 08 Feb, 2021 10:29
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#59
by
Atlantis83
on 08 Feb, 2021 20:44
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The Emirates Mars Mission - or Al Amal (means The Hope) will enter Mars orbit tomorrow. It's just 18 hours away. So it's time to bring this thread to the front again.
According to the magazine "Info Shymkent" is the timeline (in UTC) of the Hope probe to enter Mars orbit as following:
• 3.30 pm: Burn of the thruster engines starts
• 3.42 pm: Mission control receive signal that the thruster engines starting
• 3.57 pm: Thruster engines finishing their work and Al Amal is in orbit
• 4.08 pm: Mission control receive signal that Emirates Mars Mission is in orbit
There is also a illustration with the scientific instruments of the EEM spacecraft:
https://www.shymkent.info/2021/02/08/first-spacecrafts-from-arabia-and-china-arrive-at-red-planet/
