{"id":132609,"date":"2021-12-17T18:23:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/uae-looks-to-build-on-mars-mission-success-with-tour-of-the-asteroid-belt"},"modified":"2021-12-17T18:23:54","modified_gmt":"2021-12-18T02:23:54","slug":"uae-looks-to-build-on-mars-mission-success-with-tour-of-the-asteroid-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/uae-looks-to-build-on-mars-mission-success-with-tour-of-the-asteroid-belt","title":{"rendered":"UAE looks to build on Mars mission success with tour of the asteroid belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uae-looks-to-build-on-mars-mission-success-with-tour-of-the-asteroid-belt2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Less than a year after nailing its first interplanetary mission with a flawless Mars orbit insertion, the United Arab Emirates has selected its next destination: the asteroid belt.<\/p>\n<p>In October, the UAE announced that it was aiming to launch a new spacecraft in 2028. Like the Hope Mars orbiter, the as-yet-unnamed asteroid mission is designed to meet specific science goals, but it is also being carefully engineered to shape the nation\u2019s future as the UAE looks to diversify its traditionally oil-focused economy. That gives the UAE\u2019s missions a different flavor than what NASA fans are used to seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than a year after nailing its first interplanetary mission with a flawless Mars orbit insertion, the United Arab Emirates has selected its next destination: the asteroid belt. In October, the UAE announced that it was aiming to launch a new spacecraft in 2028. Like the Hope Mars orbiter, the as-yet-unnamed asteroid mission is designed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}