NASA’s Perseverance Rover One Of Three Mars 2020 Missions

Irene Klotz July 08, 2020
engineers working on spacecraft
The UAE’s Mars Hope mission has been prepared to launch on a Japanese HII-A rocket.
Credit: Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission, slated to launch by mid-August, will not be the only spacecraft on the interplanetary highway to Mars this summer. In its deep space debut, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hopes its Mars Hope orbiter will begin the seven-month journey to Mars on July 14—the...
Irene Klotz

Irene Klotz is Senior Space Editor for Aviation Week, based in Cape Canaveral. Before joining Aviation Week in 2017, Irene spent 25 years as a wire service reporter covering human and robotic spaceflight, commercial space, astronomy, science and technology for Reuters and United Press International.

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