{"id":8945,"date":"2021-02-10T07:06:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=8945"},"modified":"2021-02-10T07:06:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T07:06:09","slug":"fawad-chaudhry-congratulates-uae-on-successful-mars-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2021\/02\/10\/fawad-chaudhry-congratulates-uae-on-successful-mars-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Fawad Chaudhry congratulates UAE on successful Mars mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday congratulated the UAE government and nation on the successful Mars mission.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heartfelt congratulation to people and the Government of UAE. You have achieved a milestone for humanity, truly a proud moment for Muslim Ummah and particularly for the Arab world,\u201d the minister said in a video message which he shared on the microblogging website Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1612940679064770656=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My heartfelt congs to people and the Government of \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uaegov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uaegov<\/a>\u2069 you have achieved a milestone for humanity truly a proud moment for Muslim Ummah And particularly for Arab World \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uaeembassyisb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uaeembassyisb<\/a>\u2069\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/itGxTtSoBg\">pic.twitter.com\/itGxTtSoBg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fawadchaudhry\/status\/1359196234657972234?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates\u2019 first mission to Mars reached the red planet and entered orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month, 494 million km journey, allowing it to start sending data about the Martian atmosphere and climate.<\/p>\n<p>This makes the UAE the fifth space agency to reach the planet. The Mars programme is part of the UAE\u2019s efforts to develop its scientific and technological capabilities and reduce its reliance on oil. The UAE Space Agency even has a plan for a Mars settlement by 2117.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContact with #HopeProbe has been established again. The Mars Orbit Insertion is now complete,\u201d the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">The attempt to lock into orbit around Mars had a 50% chance of failing, Dubai\u2019s ruler and UAE Vice President Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph-paragraph-2Bgue ArticleBody-para-TD_9x\">\u201cThis is the farthest point in the universe to be reached by Arabs throughout their history \u2026 Our goal is to give hope to all Arabs that we are capable of competing with the rest of the world,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The UAE first announced plans for the mission in 2014 and launched a National Space Programme in 2017 to develop local expertise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry on Tuesday congratulated the UAE government and nation on the successful Mars mission. \u201cMy heartfelt congratulation to people and the Government of UAE. You have achieved a milestone for humanity, truly a proud moment for Muslim Ummah and particularly for the Arab world,\u201d the minister said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8947,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8945\/revisions\/8947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}