UAE, Japan takes major step towards outer space
Date
7/17/2023 10:04:16 AM
(MENAFN) Premier of Japan, Kishida Fumio will visit the UAE to underline the enhanced two-sided agreements among both nations, involving space.
Japan and UAE have collaborated to study space and run several scientific tests that would support the qualitative improvements in subjects of science, communication technologies and robotics, covering all the way from Mars to the Moon.
In 2023, Japan’s ispace company worked with the Gulf nation to support the UAE’s Rashid rover to reach the moon. Even though it did not succeed to land, the Hakuto-R Mission 1 spaceship, which was carrying the rover, succeeded to blast off to space in December last year.
The UAE sent Emirati astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi to train in Japan prior to his ongoing job to preserve their sturdy space cooperation. In 2022, Al-Neyadi trained for a week at Tsukuba with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to prepare for his job.
Al-Neyadi is a participant of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6, which launched a six-month task to the International Space Station this spring.
Yet, the major accomplishment of Japan and the UAE in space predates to July 2020, when Mars Hope Probe took off from Tanegashima Space Center, attached on a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H-IIA launch vehicle F42.
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