Payload
AL-AMAL (HOPE)
OperationalPayloadLEONORAD 45918
The Emirates Mars Mission is a United Arab Emirates Space Agency uncrewed space exploration mission to Mars. The Hope probe was launched on 20 July 2020, and went into orbit around Mars on 9 February 2021.
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- Launch date
- July 19, 2020 at 09:58 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Tanegashima, Japan
- Launched by
- H-IIA 202 →
- Operator
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Mission
- Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 246 km
- Periapsis
- 236 km
- Inclination
- 30.3°
- Orbital period
- 89.3 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United Arab Emirates
- Launch mass
- 1,350 kg
- Dimensions
- 2.9 × 2.4 × 2.4 m
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 2020-047A
- NORAD catalog №
- 45918
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United Arab Emirates- Status
- Operational