After the United Arab Emirates and China, it is the turn of the United States to take advantage of the window of fire to Mars that opened this summer. The Americans must send their March 2020 mission this Thursday at 1:50 p.m. (French time) from the Kennedy Space Center, located in Florida. An Atlas V rocket is tasked with placing the interplanetary crossing vessel on its travel path.
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At takeoff, Earth and Mars (which are on the same side of the Sun and closer, which happens only every 26 months) are about 100 million km apart. But as the planets continue their course at different rates, without waiting for the ship, it will have to travel approximately 500 million km to catch up with the red planet. It will take him about seven months at nearly 100,000 km / h. In short, this operation costed at 2.7 billion dollars is not an easy task, and this is the reason why the first UAE and Chinese attempts between these two
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