UAE's Mars orbiter successfully launched by Mitsubishi rocket

Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. successfully launched Monday morning a rocket carrying a Mars orbiter developed by the United Arab Emirates.The H2A rocket carrying the Hope explorer lifted off at 6:58 a.m. from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima Prefecture, southwestern Japan.The Hope explorer, developed at Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai, is expected to travel 493.5 million kilometers over seven months to reach orbit around Mars in 2021, marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the UAE. It will be the first interplanetary mission by a Middle Eastern country.The…READ FULL ARTICLE