How UAE Develops Its Space Exploration Program

The United Arab Emirates is making good progress in space exploration. Their Hope mission has been orbiting Mars since 2021. Their Rashid rover is on its way to the Moon. They are also planning a mission to the Asteroid belt. In this interview, I m discussing UAE s current progress as well as future missions with Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Director of the Space Missions Department at UAE Space Agency. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:50 UAE s Hope mission at Mars 03:22 Science goals and results 07:14 Current state of the spacecraft 10:17 Tech for future missions 14:02 Rashid Moon rover 15:11 Next missions 18:55 Outro 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe Free: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.