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UAE works to land spaceship in an asteroid belt beyond Mars

The vehicle deployed aboard the MBR Explorer is expected to land on the seventh asteroid, Justitia, to study its surface and composition in closer detail

Launch of the "Hope" Mars probe at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai in 2020 (Getty Images)

The UAE is planning to build a landing vehicle as part of a 13-year space mission to explore asteroids beyond Mars.

The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt will involve a series of flybys of seven asteroids, with the...