Not a lot of news about this
Here is another article from Space.com, and one more, although that’s The New York Times and behind a paywall.
It’s amazing that the technology and availability of launch platforms) has advanced to the point where a relatively small country can attempt such a mission. Good for them. I look forward to hearing whatever results they obtain.
Bravo for them. As far as I’m concerned, the more players in the space game, the better.
It helps that UAE is very wealthy from oil money. Their per capita GDP is 19th in the world . Only 10% of their population is Arab, the rest are mostly Indian and Pakistani and other Asian people. the foreigners do almost all the service jobs.