Six years after Hope, UAE engineers are leading a 5-billion-km asteroid mission

Six years ago, some of the Emirati engineers working on the Hope Probe were still learning how to build and operate the UAE's first interplanetary mission. Today, several of them are leading a spacecraft that will travel almost ten times farther.Engineers who worked on the Emirates Mars Mission have returned as programme managers, team leaders and specialists on MBR Explorer, the spacecraft being built for a five-billion-kilometre journey through the asteroid belt, Salem Butti Al Qubaisi, Direct...

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