<p>After sending its first astronaut to space last year, the United Arab Emirates is to launch a probe to Mars in July, state news agency WAM announced Tuesday.</p>.<p>The unmanned probe, named Hope, will be "the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation", it said.</p>.<p>WAM said the probe would be launched on July 15, at 2051 GMT, from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre, using a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries platform.</p>.<p>It is set to make a 495-million-kilometre (307-million-mile) journey to reach and orbit the Red Planet.</p>.<p>Last September, Hazza al-Mansouri made history as the first Emirati in space.</p>
<p>After sending its first astronaut to space last year, the United Arab Emirates is to launch a probe to Mars in July, state news agency WAM announced Tuesday.</p>.<p>The unmanned probe, named Hope, will be "the first interplanetary exploration undertaken by an Arab nation", it said.</p>.<p>WAM said the probe would be launched on July 15, at 2051 GMT, from Japan's Tanegashima Space Centre, using a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries platform.</p>.<p>It is set to make a 495-million-kilometre (307-million-mile) journey to reach and orbit the Red Planet.</p>.<p>Last September, Hazza al-Mansouri made history as the first Emirati in space.</p>