UAE unveils ambitious probe that will travel to six asteroids, land on the seventh
The UAE has unveiled a homegrown probe for its asteroid belt mission, aimed at studying 269 Justitia up close. The project marks the country's first interplanetary mission with a spacecraft element designed, engineered, assembled and tested within the UAE.
The United Arab Emirates has unveiled a homegrown space probe designed to travel across the main asteroid belt, fly past six asteroids and attempt a landing on a seventh, in an ambitious interplanetary mission that could offer new insights into the e... [2932 chars]
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