Episode 18 NEWS BLAST: UAE Mars Orbiter - BIIRS Season 2

Guess what Space Cadets? It's time for a NEWS BLAST! Did you know the UAE has a Space Program, let alone a Mars Orbiter? Come hang out with us while we take you through an overview of the Hope Probe! Note from Anna: It's Jim Bridenstine not Jim Birdenstine. I always get that wrong. My apologies to Mr. Bridenstine and all the members of the JBFC (http://jimbridenstinefan.club/) Music from filmmusic.io "Tyrant" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) License: CC BY (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Anna’s Sources: 2, Jeff Foust — October, and Jeff Foust. “United Arab Emirates to Establish Human Spaceflight Program.” SpaceNews, 30 Jan. 2019, spacenews.com/united-arab-emirates-to-establish-human-spaceflight-program/. Calypsu. “Home.” Home | Emirates Mars Mission, www.emiratesmarsmission.ae/. Clark, Stephen. “United Arab Emirates Successfully Sends Its First Mission toward Mars.” Spaceflight Now, 19 July 2020, spaceflightnow.com/2020/07/19/united-arab-emirates-successfully-sends-its-first-mission-toward-mars/. Gibney, Elizabeth. “How a Small Arab Nation Built a Mars Mission from Scratch in Six Years.” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 8 July 0AD, 2020, www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-020-01862-z/index.html. Lunsford, Christine. “Hazzaa Ali Almansoori: The 1st Emirati Astronaut's Space Station Mission in Photos.” Space.com, Space, 26 Sept. 2019, www.space.com/first-uae-astronaut-emirati-hazzaa-ali-almansoori--photos.html. Strickland, Ashley. This Summer, Multiple Spacecraft Are Launching to Mars. Here's Why. 29 July 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/07/27/world/mars-mission-launches-summer-2020-scn/index.html. Tanegashima Space Center. 23 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_Space_Center. Williams , Dr. David R, and E Bell. “Emirates Mars Mission (Hope).” NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, NASA, 14 May 2020, nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=EMM-HOPE. Henna’s Sources: Amiri, Sarah, and EMM Team. “EMIRATES HOPE MARS MISSION (EMM) SCIENCE OVERVIEW.” Jet Propulsion Laboratory , NASA, mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meeting/2019-07/Agenda/08_EMM%20Overview%20Mars%20Intl%20July%202019%20-%20MEPAG.pdf. “Emirates Mars Mission to Begin Journey to the Red Planet.” CU Boulder Today, 16 July 2020, www.colorado.edu/today/2020/07/15/emirates-mars-mission-begin-journey-red-planet. “Emirates Mars Mission.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 20 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirates_Mars_Mission. “Hydrazine Thrusters.” Monopropellant Hydrazine Thrusters, www.space-propulsion.com/spacecraft-propulsion/hydrazine-thrusters/index.html. “Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 22 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Rashid_Space_Centre. Moukhallati, Dana. “Emirati 'Hope' Probe Heads for Mars.” Phys.org, Phys.org, 14 July 2020, phys.org/news/2020-07-emirati-probe-mars.html. Robert Sanders, Media relations| July 19, and Robert Sanders. “Emirates Launches First Mars Probe with Help from UC Berkeley.” Berkeley News, 29 July 2020, news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/19/emirates-launches-first-mars-probe-with-help-from-uc-berkeley/. “Sarah Al Amiri.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 21 Aug. 2020, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Al_Amiri. Seeker. “The UAE’s Hope Probe Will Make History As It Heads to Mars.” Youtube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=n65UpNa21V0. “الاهداف العلمية لمشروع الامارات لاستكشاف المريخ.” وكالة الإمارات للفضاء, www.space.gov.ae/Page/20121/20250/The-Science-of-the-Emirates-Mars-Mission.