Mars Mission Will Inspire To Take Risks: Minister

Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri, Minister of State for Advanced Technology, and Deputy Project Manager and Science Lead of the UAE’s Mars Mission.

UAE’s Minister of State for Advanced Technology, and Deputy Project Manager and Science Lead of the UAE’s Mars Mission, Sarah bint Yousif Al Amiri said that the Mars Mission will inspire new projects and enterprises, including big companies and SMEs, in all sectors, to take risks, mitigate them and succeed.

“When you talk about transforming the economy and developing science and technology, and building new companies and small and medium enterprises, it depends on the capability to take risks, mitigate them and come out with larger impacts,” she said.

“There is a greater appetite for risk in the Mars Mission, which is a project that is five times more complex than any other space mission we have undertaken,” she added.

“This has allowed us to further develop our skills and to know how to address all possible challenges and potential risks, overcome them and how to make sure that we always have our target in mind.”

The way the Mars Mission is meeting the challenges and achieving its target will inspire other projects and enterprises in all other sectors, Al Amiri said in a Zoom interview from Japan where she is supervising the last leg operations for the launch of Hope Probe.

The Probe is scheduled to lift off at 00:51:27 UAE time on Wednesday, 15th July 2020, from the Tanegashima Space Centre in Japan.

“Launching the spacecraft, getting it separated from the launch vehicle after a few hours, deploying the solar panels, receiving the first signal following the launch and ensuring that the spacecraft is functioning according to its design and headed towards Mars…all these are challenging manoeuvres and challenging aspects of the mission as we move forward,” Al Amiri said.

“Also, the spacecraft reaching Mars and attaining its capture orbit around the planet are big challenges.”

“When you talk about the UAE’s economy in the next 30 years, one of its foundations is science and technology because you want to have an economy based on knowledge …knowledge of production, utilisation of knowledge and creating intangible assets. That’s how the most sustainable economies work around the world,” she explained.

Asked about the mission’s inspiration to the Emirati youth to study science and technology-related subjects, she said, “There are ever expanding opportunities being created for them when it comes to working in the sciences and engineering. As the economy grows and diversifies further, more such opportunities will come up.”

She added, “We are now living at a time in the UAE where it is possible to work in any area that somebody wishes to work in.”

As part of the Mars Mission, the minister and her team conducted a lot of educational and outreach programmes for the youth of various ages to offer in-depth knowledge on building the systems and the role of scientists, researchers and engineers in the space sector.

Also Read: ‘UAE Mars Mission Sparking Interest Among Youth’

Also Read: Mars Hope Probe To Begin on July 15

 

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