The United Arab Emirates Space Agency marks its fourth anniversary

The United Arab Emirates Space Agency will mark its fourth anniversary on July 16, 2018 and the country's space sector has already seen a lot of improvements and changes, according to a senior official.

Sheikha Al Maskari, chief of innovation at the United Arab Emirates Space Agency has spoken with Khaleej Times on the sidelines of a press conference organized to announce the details the first NASA program space camp in Dubai.

The UAE Space Agency was established on July 16, 2014 and several projects have been launched since, including the dispatch of an unmanned spacecraft, called Hope, in orbit around Mars , the first four emirati astronaut corps will be chosen this year and one of them will go to space in April. In addition, the United Arab Emirates announced the construction of an entire colony on Mars by 2117.

"It was an incredible trip for the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, we celebrate our anniversary on July 16. In just four years, we have seen a lot of changes in the space sector – we have a mission on Mars, the astronaut program, the scientific city of Mars, the 100 Al Maskari said that it's all right. Teaching young people about space has become essential because it will help prepare professionals for the future of the March Colony. "It's not just a trip to Mars, the journey is the educational part, there are so many things happening and we want everyone to be involved.I like to see the light in the eye.They are very excited.I have already talked to some of them and there is hope. It is possible that one of the children ts participating in the space camp can be one of our astronauts in the future.

Student Camp

United Arab Emirates-based Compass International organizes the Space Space and Rocketry Space Camp Academy, in collaboration with the United Arab Emirates Space Agency, from July 15 to August 23rd.

NASA senior officials will give lectures at the camp, including Jim Rice, who has worked for 30 years for the US Space Agency. Space and Rocketry Camp students will learn basic rocket aerodynamics, model rocket design, mission patch design and presentation, astronaut space food tasting, etiquette and work in the space. to Mars and take part in a technical design challenge.

Students will also be able to interact and send questions to the current commander in space on the International Space Station, astronaut Drew Feustel. to produce a question for the commander. They will receive the answers by e-mail later in the camp.

Dr. Rice, head of the NASA geology team and co-investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Exploration Project's science team, said that he was going to teach students "I let's talk about what we learned from our rovers who are on Mars and also how to get to Mars, how to design a mission on Mars, you need some types "It takes landers, special space suits, and we do not can go to March that at certain times of the year, "he said.

Opportunity will survive the dust storm on a red factory

their opportunist rover based in March will survive the massive dust storm that enveloped the red planet for nearly two months

It's been exactly five weeks since NASA did not hear of Opportunity, which landed on Mars in January 2004, and take pictures of different sites on the red planet. has helped NASA to make major scientific discoveries, including providing photos of rocks and soils that suggest that water activity once existed on Mars. The current dust storms pushed Opportunity into low power mode and sent no signal to NASA.

Dr. Jim Rice, head of the NASA geology team and co-investigator of the Nasa Mars Exploration Rover project science team. it could probably take months for the dust storm to subside, however, he remains optimistic about the opportunity.

"This dust storm has started since the end of May and it continues to be quite strong, we know that the Martian dust storms occur, but this happened in the early spring and they are usually produce in the summer, "said Dr. Rice to Khaleej Times, who is in Dubai this week as a guest speaker at the Space and Rocketry Camp held by Compass International, in collaboration with the United Arab Emirates Space Agency

"If we had the Hope mission there (unmanned spacecraft coming from the United Arab Emirates), which would look especially at the Martian weather conditions would help us refine our models to predict if these things will happen and understand how they start. We understand a bit about the dust storms on Mars and it will be very important when we send people to Mars to find out what will happen. You can predict the weather here and you can prepare yourself. This storm has come out of nowhere and has grown to cover the entire planet. The planet is still shrouded in dust until today. "

Dr. Rice said the main concern is that if the weather on Mars gets too cold for Opportunity to handle.

" It's a delicate dance that we do, but, I'm still optimistic we will still survive there. Who knows when it's going to end because the storm has been going on for months and it takes a long time for the dust to come out of there. I think we have a long way ahead of us to see what will happen – weeks, if not months. "

" Space espionage "force not something new

A space force already exists in the United States The Department of Defense of the United States and other countries have sent satellites Spies in space for decades, said a senior expert of NASA, Dr. Jim Rice

.A space force as the sixth branch of the US Armed Forces, which aims to protect the security and business interests of the nation.The US Congress also asked the Pentagon to consider how this can be achieved.

This is a program civil space, but the Space Forc we are talking about already exists because all the defense departments of the nations have set up spy, meteorological and communication satellites.The United States have been doing this since the beginning of the Space era. What it tries (Trump) to do, in terms what it sounds like to me, is to centralize it in one area instead of extending it to the air force and the navy, "said Dr. Rice

. the Department of Defense) has set up its own satellites now for troop communications and movements, it already exists. It is not called the Space Force because the Ministry of Defense launches its own rockets, and this for decades for communication and navigation. "For me, it's centralizing in a branch." "Russia is doing it, China is launching it … In the United States, you have NASA, which is civilian, and the Department of Defense , so two different space programs, but the other countries do not separate them, for example Russia and China This is not really anything new, something new would be a centralized special branch. "

NASA leader Jim Bridenstine recently voiced his support for Space Force's Trump's idea in a widely resumed interview by international media.

Bridenstine said the United States should build a permanent infrastructure on the moon, as well as the idea that other security measures against commercial and national security are needed.He said that space is an international area that has a trade that has to to be protected.

"Every transaction banking requires a GPS signal for timing, you lose the GPS signal and guess what you lose, you lose your banking, "said Bridenstine.

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