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As the UAE watched Hope take off towards the Red Planet, officials and experts behind the mission looked back on the challenges the team had faced during the six-year journey of building the probe and all the hard work it had put in to make the mission happen.
Omar Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Digital Economy, Artificial Intelligence and Remote Working System, said Covid-19 was the "biggest" hurdle that the Emirates Mars Mission team had to overcome.
#HopeMarsMission: Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, UAE Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, tells Khaleej Times how #UAE overcame the challenges brought by #Covid19 pandemic ahead of UAE's #MarsMission lift-offhttps://t.co/xxKzcYlZHr@HopeMarsMission"As you know, the team had to work backwards just to ensure that everything arrives in Japan before the launch period, and so that Covid-19 and the closure of borders do not affect the launch and the mission itself," Al Olama said.
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- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) July 19, 2020
UAE's #HopeMarsMission is a huge undertaking and there is a lot of excitement around its launch, Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications said...bit.ly/UAEMarsMission @HopeMarsMission pic.twitter.com/a9X1a1ftZTThanks to proper planning and "countless sleepless nights", Hope is now on its way to Mars. The minister lauded everyone who has been part of the mission, saying each member of the team has had great contributions to engineering and technology.
- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) July 19, 2020
#HopeMarsMission: #UAE has a core team that can work on more space missions, said Dr Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi, Minister of State for Entrepreneurship and Small and Medium Enterprises... https://t.co/xxKzcYlZHr @HopeMarsMissionThe UAE's Mars mission wasn't only about sending Hope to the Red Planet's orbit, Al Falasi said. "Our number one mission was to create a core team that's able to work on future interplanetary missions. That's what we have achieved today.
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- Khaleej Times (@khaleejtimes) July 19, 2020
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