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qayxc on July 20, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: In a first, UAE spacecraft blasts off to Mars from...

It's their first interplanetary mission, not their first satellite.

There's very few other nearby options and Venus is harder to reach than Mars despite being closer most of the time.

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