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Dubai on November 17
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center announced that the launch date of the Emirates project to explore the moon – the first Emirati mission to the surface of the moon – will be on November 28, at 3:46 am EST, 12:46 pm UAE time. The date and time are still subject to change according to any developments in the weather or other circumstances.
This announcement comes after confirming the landing site of Explorer Rashid in the Atlas Crater located at 47.5 degrees north and 44.4 degrees east on the southeastern outer edge of the Marie Frigoris region, or what is known as “Bahr al-Bared” located in the far north of the moon, which was chosen in order to preserve flexibility during the implementation of operations the mission.
The landing site was also chosen taking into account multiple emergencies that can be used depending on the variables that occur during transportation, as the site has the technical specifications and scientific objectives of the Emirates Moon Exploration Project.
Upon landing, the explorer Rashid will study the properties of the soil on the moon’s surface, the rocks and geology of the moon, the movement of dust, plasma and the photoelectric envelope, which are all new discoveries about this region of the moon. Which makes the Emirates project to explore the moon one of the most anticipated space missions.
The Atlas crater is a site that has not been explored by any spacecraft or even previous manned missions, which makes the Emirates project to explore the moon one of the most awaited missions.
In cooperation with mission partners SpaceX and iSpace, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center explained that the launch vehicle is located in Complex No. 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Base in the United States and will be transferred to the launch pad when the scheduled launch date approaches.
According to iSpace, the lander will take a low-energy trajectory to the moon instead of heading directly, which means the landing will take about five months after launch, meaning it will be during March 2023.
