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Emirates Mars Mission (Hope)

Also known as Hope, Al-Amal, EmiratesMarsMission(Hope), Hope Probe, Emirates Mars Mission

United Arab Emirates · Launched

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The Emirates Mars Mission, or "Hope" (Al-Amal) Mars orbiter mission launched from Tanegashima Space Center at 21:58:14 UT on 19 July 2020. Built by the United Arab Emirates, the mission will orbit Mars and study the dynamics of the martian atmosphere and its interaction with outer space and the solar wind. It entered an elliptical, roughly 22000 x 44000 km orbit on 9 February 2021. Two years of science operations are planned, beginning in May 2021, with a possibility of a two-year extension to do more science into 2025, and no page fetched for this record states whether operations have ended.

Destinations
Launch vehicle
H-2A
Launch site
Tanegashima, Japan
Countries
United Arab Emirates
Mission types
Orbiter

Chronology

Mission timeline

  1. Launch

    Launched from Tanegashima on an H-IIA

    The mission launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan at 21:58:14 UT on 19 July 2020 (July 20 1:58 a.m. UAE time, 6:58 a.m. Japan time) on a Mitsubishi H-IIA booster, and the launch/orbital information page gives the same instant as 2020-07-19T21:58:14Z. The mission's own site prints the launch by its local label, LAUNCHED 20th July 2020, 01:58 AM (Dubai Time), LAUNCH LOCATION Tanegashima Space Centre, Japan. NSSDCA's Funding Agency line reads Unknown (United Arab Emirates), so the agency and the country here are both that parenthesis; the only institution any cited page attaches to the spacecraft is the image credit Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), which is not a funding statement and is not committed as an agency.

    Earth

  2. Orbit insertion

    A 27-minute burn into a 55-hour capture orbit

    After a 200 day cruise to Mars, on 9 February 2021 at about 15:41 UT (Earth-received time, or ERT - there is a 10 min., 40 sec. delay at this distance to Earth) Hope ignited its thrusters for a 27-minute orbital insertion burn. The burn required about 400 kg of hydrazine. At about 16:08 UT ERT Hope completed the burn and entered an elliptical, roughly 22000 x 44000 km orbit with a period of 55 hours and a 25 degree inclination. The committed time is the Earth-received one the page publishes, because the page publishes no spacecraft time.

    Mars

  3. Milestone

    Science operations planned from May 2021, with no published end

    Two years of science operations are planned, beginning in May 2021, with a possibility of a two-year extension to do more science into 2025. THIS RECORD'S STATUS RESTS ON THE ABSENCE OF AN END STATEMENT RATHER THAN ON A POSITIVE ONE, and that is stated here rather than left for a reader to infer. The mission's own site was fetched on 2026-09-02 through a 2 February 2026 capture and gives a MISSION DURATION of One Martian Year (about 2 Earth years) with no statement of the mission's present state; NSSDCA's page stops at the sentence above. No page cited here says operations continue and none says they have ended.

    Mars

Mission architecture

Vehicles

  • Hope Probe · Orbiter

    Destinations: Mars

Trajectory record

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Provenance

Sources

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Data verified through September 2, 2026