Mars Orbit Insertion of Hope
Hope fired its thrusters for 27 minutes to slow the spacecraft enough to enter orbit around Mars.

The United Arab Emirates’ first Mars mission, Hope, successfully entered orbit around the planet Feb. 9.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...