UAE Adds Mars Moon Deimos To Hope Probe Science Roster

Irene Klotz February 15, 2023
Martian moon Deimos
Credit: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter/HiRISE/University of Arizona/NASA
The United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) first interplanetary spacecraft is expanding its studies at Mars to include flybys of the planet’s small outer moon, Deimos. The UAE’s Hope spacecraft completed a 300-million-mi. journey on Feb. 9, 2021, and put itself into orbit around Mars for a two-year primary...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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