The UAE will send the MBR Explorer space explorer to study the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
This was announced Monday, May 29, by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Vice President of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai.
He said in his blog on "Twitter": "In the presidential palace, we revealed scientific details of one of the most important space exploration projects, which is the UAE mission to study the asteroid belt.
The mission will take 13 years, including 6 years to design the probe and 7 years to realize the expedition.
According to the Prime Minister, the MBR Explorer, which he called Mohammed bin Rashid, will travel a distance of 5 billion kilometers to study 7 asteroids and land on the surface of the seventh asteroid in 2034. The Ruler of Dubai indicated that the MBR Explorer will travel a distance 10 times greater than the distance traveled by the “Hope” probe. The Emirati who arrived on February 9, 2022, in the orbit of Mars.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum added, "The UAE mission to study the asteroid belt is a huge and unique national project that will require the creation of private Emirati companies specialized in space technologies and a ground center to lead space flights into deep space, as well as qualifying new cadres from the country." The United Arab Emirates".
And the Emirati newspaper, The National, reported that the explorer will weigh 2.3 tons. It will be equipped with foldable solar batteries. According to the newspaper, the explorer will pass an area with 6 asteroids, and then will land a probe on the seventh asteroid.
In addition to achieving scientific goals, the space mission can form a basis for extracting resources from space because this asteroid belt contains a huge amount of minerals such as iron, gold and nickel.
New study : A "new moon" accompanied the earth since 100 BC and continues to revolve around us until the year 3700!
A new study revealed that the Earth has a "new moon" - or what is known as a moon-like, which is a space rock that orbits our planet, but it is attached to the sun's gravity.
This moonlike, named 2023 FW13, was discovered by experts who used the Pan-STARRS telescope to find it at the top of the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii, and is one of the few known moonlike ones.
Experts believe that the ancient cosmic companion has been around Earth since 100 BC and will continue to circle our planet for at least another 1,500 years, until the year 3700.
Fortunately, 2023 FW13 or its other moon sibling named 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (469219 Kamoʻoalewa) is not believed to pose any danger to people on Earth.
The moonlike is defined as a small astronomical body (asteroid) distinguished in a common orbital state with a planet, so that the body remains close to the planet over many orbital periods. The moon-like often appears to revolve around our planet like a natural moon, but it was given the term "like" at the beginning of its name because these objects are gravitationally bound to the sun rather than the Earth, and not the other way around as is the case with our moon.
2023 FW13 differs from our moon in that it orbits outside Earth's "Hill range", which is the region around a planetary body where its gravity is the dominant force that attracts moons.
The Hale Range has a radius of 932,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth, while 2023 FW13's radius from Earth is slightly larger - about 1.6 million miles.
Earth has a new 'MOON', scientists reveal - and it's here to stay for at least 1,500 years
"The ring's dimension - about 0.18 astronomical units in radius - is so large that the Earth does not play a major role in its motion," Alan Harris, a senior investigator at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado, told Sky & Telescope.
"The 2023 FW13 is in no way connected to Earth except by chance," he added.
2023 FW13 was first spotted on March 28 by the PanSTARRS telescope, before its existence was confirmed by several other telescopes.
Although the size of 2023 FW13 is uncertain, asteroid specialist Richard Penzel estimates it to be between 30 and 50 feet (10 to 15 meters) in diameter.
And that's just a fraction of the diameter of our Moon, which is 2,159 miles (although the Moon is classified as such because of its orbital characteristics rather than its size).
The orbit of 2023 FW13 around the sun takes about the same time as Earth, about 365.42 days (1.0005 Earth years).
As it circles the Earth on its orbital journey, this orbit is so elongated that it reaches halfway to Mars and halfway to Venus.
Earth has many known cosmic companions, many of which belong to what is known as the moon-like. And the presence of the 2023 FW13 indicates that more is likely to be discovered.
The moonlike tends to follow a "stable" path around the Earth for more than a few decades before finally leaving the planet's orbit.
Amateur astronomer Tony Dunn said 2023 FW13 is a special event because it has been like a moon for centuries and will remain so for "many more centuries to come".
ISRO India : India is preparing to launch its new spacecraft to explore the moon
Wion TV reported that India is preparing to launch its new exploration vehicle to the moon.
According to the channel, the Chandrayaan-3 robotic vehicle dedicated to lunar exploration has been delivered to the Indian Satish Dhawan Space Center in preparation for its launch.
The channel indicated that the vehicle was transferred from the UR Rao Manufacturing and Design Center in Bangalore to the Satish Dhawan Center to conduct final tests and fuel it, and it was transported by special means of transport that protect it from dust and secure the necessary temperatures and humidity, and security and confidentiality standards were observed during the transportation process.
The Satish Dawn Space Center is currently preparing India's largest LVM3 space rocket, specially designed to launch the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft.
The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had indicated earlier that its third space mission to explore the moon would include the landing of a robotic vehicle on its surface, and this mission was scheduled to be launched in 2021, but the project was postponed due to the conditions of the spread of the Corona epidemic at that time.
It should be noted that India had launched the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft to the moon in November 2008, and this vehicle remained operating in orbit around the moon until August 2009, and in July 2019 it launched its second lunar mission, Chandrayaan-2, in which it was planned to The vehicle lands on the surface of the moon, but on September 7 of the same year, it lost contact with that vehicle when it was at an altitude of 2.1 km from its surface, and after that it was announced that it had crashed while trying to land there.
Astronaut : Oleg Kononenko may become the first cosmonaut to spend more than 1,000 days in orbit around the Earth
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko may become the first man in the world to spend more than 1,000 days in space.
This is the result of the realization of the 70th and 71st space missions aboard the International Space Station.
This came in a press report published by the press service of the Russian state space corporation "Ross Cosmos".
According to the "Ross Cosmos" program, the mission of Oleg Kononchenko and his space colleague Nikolai Chop will start in September 2023 and will continue until September 2024.
According to information received from the "Gagarin" Cosmonaut Training Center, Oleg Kononenko has so far spent 736 days, 18 hours and 43 minutes in space.
So his next space mission, which will take about one year, will allow him to skip the 1,000 days he will spend in orbit around the Earth.
It is noteworthy that Oleg Kononenko went to Earth's orbit 4 times during his space career. During this period, he went out 5 times from the space station into open space, and all these operations outside the station took 32 hours and 13 minutes.