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Podcast: Beyond the Headlines
Episode: The Hope Probe: UAE's mission to Mars
Description: In July 2020, UAE’s Hope Probe will blast off from Japan to study Mars.
This week, Mohsen Al Alwahdi, the Mission Systems Engineer at Dubai’s Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre tells host Suhail Rather what it took to get to this point and explains the journey the probe will take to the Red Planet. Historian Simon Ings and Sarwat Nasir, a senior reporter at The National, explain the significance of such a mission.