UAE, Isro to ink deal for launching first Arab Mars mission

[AnnoyingOrange]

Isro will be signing a deal on Thursday with its counterpart in the United Arab Emirates to launch Arab world’s first ever mission to Mars.

The MoU between Isro and UAE space agency is among several that would be signed during the visit of Emirates’ de-facto ruler and crown prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan to New Delhi.

The countries will also ink an agreement to set up UAE-India Infrastructure Investment Fund aiming to boost UAE’s investment in India’s infrastructure sector up to $75 billion.

The fund would focus on railways, ports, roads, airports, industrial corridors and parks, officials told Deccan Herald Wednesday.

Sheikh Mohammed, also the Deputy Supreme Commander of UAE Armed Forces, arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday. He will hold a private meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi Thursday morning and the two leaders will also lead their country’s respective delegations in the evening. The Arab leader will also meet President Pranab Mukherjee.

In July 2014, The UAE announced its decision to launch Arab world’s first ever satellite to Mars in July 2020.


UAE, Isro to ink deal for launching first Arab Mars mission


This is precisely we need a strong space program... whoever says we don't .. needs to get his brain examined.

 

[45'22']

ISRO could use the money for further developments in lander.....looks like a win win for both

 

[Brahmaputra Mail]

The PR campaign of MOM being cheaper than Hollywood movie 'Gravity' and it being succesful in the first attemp kinda worked !!

 

[@RV]

First the news of that oil storage benefit and now this. This is quite good day.

 

[somebozo]

The Hope (Arabic: مسبار الأمل‎) spacecraft orbiter is a planned 2020 unmannedmission to Mars by the United Arab Emirates to study the Martian atmosphere and climate.[1][4][5] The roboticspace probe is expected to be launched in the summer of 2020 and to take seven to nine months to arrive at Mars.[1] In designing the orbiter, the Emirates Mars Mission deputy project manager and science lead, Sarah Amiri, is expected to collaborate with the University of Colorado, the University of California, Berkeley and the Arizona State University.

Mars Hope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia