The United Arab Emirates will launch its 1st-ever Mars mission today. Here's how to watch live.
By Mike Wall 21 minutes ago
Liftoff is scheduled for 5:58 p.m. EDT (2158 GMT).
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch its first-ever interplanetary mission today (July 19), and you can watch the historic liftoff live.
The Emirates Mars Mission, also known as Hope, is scheduled to launch atop an H-IIA rocket from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center today at 5:58 p.m. EDT (2158 GMT; 6:58 a.m. July 20 Japan Standard Time. You can follow the action live here at Space.com courtesy of the UAE Space Agency and the Dubai One news channel, or directly via the latter two organizations here.
Launch webcasts will also be provided by the UAE Space Agency and Dubai TV, the UAE Space Agency and Abu Dhabi TV, and Japan's Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, which built the H-2A rocket.
If all goes according to plan, the $200 million Hope mission will arrive in Mars orbit in early 2021, then study the Red Planet from above for at least one Mars year (a little less than two Earth years).
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