South Korea seeks joint Moon, Mars explorations with UAE

Abu Dhabi

The UAE’s successful launch of the Mars Mission, Hope Probe, will serve as a positive impetus to South Korea’s planned lunar mission and pave the way for joint Moon and Mars explorations.

As South Korea is planning to launch a lunar orbiter in 2022, and send a lunar landing module by 2030, "I hope that we share the experience and scientific data, so we can open up a new chapter of our cooperation in space exploration," said Cheolho Lim, President of Korea Aerospace Research Institute, KARI, which is the aeronautics and space agency of South Korea.