UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) successfully launched its first spacecraft to Mars on July 20, 2020, from the Tanegashima Space Center in Japan, aboard a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIA rocket, making it the first Arab and Muslim majority country to reach the Red Planet.
The Hope spacecraft was a part of the UAE’s ambitious Mars exploration program, which aims to study the Martian atmosphere and weather patterns to…


