After extensive meetings, the UAE Space Agency and the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center through discussions with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, announced further delay of the Mars Hope Probe launch due to unstable weather conditions at the launch site in Tanegashima Island, Japan.

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NASA Wallops Flight Facility

As part of NASA’s “Exploring Hell” challenge, the design was selected as the 1st place winner from 572 entries from over 80 countries. The competition organized by NASA’s JPL and HeroX, challenged designers, innovators and inventors to design a mechanical obstacle avoidance sensor for future Venus rover. Earlier, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory had been working on an innovative project for a wind-powered clockwork rover that could withstand the furnace-like heat and crushing pressures of Venus. The sensor required to be incorporated into the rover had to follow the same design approach; a robust mechanical system that can survive for months in the extreme environment of Venus.
The sensor had to detect cliffs and holes deeper than 35cm, rocks higher than 35cm, slopes steeper than 30º in any direction and combinations of these circumstances that would cause the rover to exceed the 30º angle limitation. All this while limited to strict dimensions, mass and, of course, materials.
The design breaks down the solution…