The Arab world’s first interplanetary spacecraft has sent its first transmission to ground control at the UAE Space Agency after a successful launch.
The Hope probe blasted off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Centre at 01:58 UAE time on Monday morning and successfully detached from its the rocket just under an hour later.
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