Race To Prepare UAE Mars Probe For Launch Not Over Yet

May 14, 2020
spacecraft engineers
The pandemic creates a logistics nightmare for the UAE.
Credit: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
It has been a challenging ride for the United Arab Emirates’ debut Mars mission—and it hasn’t even launched yet. The engineering and science hurdles were not surprising. After all, the UAE’s previous experience building spacecraft consisted of a single small Earth-observation satellite, DubaiSat-2...

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