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UAE: How they got a spacecraft to Mars

The UAE’s space agency sent its first mission to Mars in 2020, less than ten years after it was set up. So how did they pull it off?

On July 19, 2020, a few months after a global pandemic had paralyzed the world, a rocket took off from Tanegashima, a small island in the south of Japan.

On board was a small spaceship just over 2 meters (6.5 feet) wide, weighing about the same as a Ford Focus car. It had many important cameras and spectrometers on board for its upcoming mission, which would take more than 493 million km (306 million miles) from Earth. On top of its gold body was a big black radio antenna that would send its data across the vast, cold void of space to controllers sitting at their monitors.

The name of the spaceship was “Hope.” However, it wasn’t from the United States, Russia, or the European Union. Instead, Hope was the first spacecraft from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA) to go further than an orbit around the Earth. If it works, it will be the first Arab spaceship to reach Mars, and the UAE will be only the fifth country in the world to put a spaceship in orbit around Mars.

As the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was getting ready to celebrate its 50th anniversary, its space agency put its reputation on the line by sending a spaceship into orbit around Mars on the first try to send back information about the weather on Mars that had never been seen before.

UAE didn’t have a space agency six years before the launch

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) is at the far end of Dubai International Airport, about half an hour’s drive east of the Burj Khalifa. It’s small compared to other space centers. You could lose it in the parking lot of NASA’s massive Johnson Space Center in Houston.

The UAESA, less than ten years old, runs this group of offices, workshops, and clean rooms. From here, much of the work was done to help guide the Emirates Mars Mission to the Red Planet.

It is one of the most ambitious new companies in the space business. However, it opened in 2014. So, a six-year effort to create a pan-Arab space program like the European Space Agency didn’t work out. This made the UAE want to start its space agency and may help explain why it moves so quickly.

Before it had its space agency, the UAE had already launched seven satellites. All of them were made by companies outside of the UAE, like EADS in Europe, Boeing in the U.S., and Satrec Initiative in South Korea. But it was in 2018 that the country could make its own. The Earth-sensing satellite KhalifaSat was built by a team of Emirati engineers at Satrec Initiative’s facilities in South Korea.

KhalifaSat was launched into space in 2018 on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan. It took high-resolution pictures of Earth from 613 kilometers (380 miles) up. These pictures could be used for everything from planning cities to helping people after a natural disaster. But the satellite was also meant to start a new space industry in the Emirates from scratch.

Omran Sharaf was in charge of the Emirates Mars Mission in February 2022. Sharaf, who is 38, says that what made him want to do the mission was the “triple helix model, where the private sector, the government, and academics all work together so that this overlap can happen. And not have each area work on its own.”

With this, the UAE put its money on the line to become one of the best space agencies of the 21st century. During the Cold War, these things would have seemed impossible. But exploring space in the 2020s will be a very different thing. The geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which was the main driver of the space race, has broken up. It has many more people involved, including businesses like SpaceX in the U.S. and new agencies from small countries like the UAE.

In the past, when space programs put satellites into orbit, they turned their attention to the Moon, our closest neighbor. Not the UAE, though.

The crash in the aviation industry of the Gulf States during the coronavirus pandemic may have been good for the young space industry. As travel bans took hold, long-haul hubs like Dubai and Abu Dhabi were almost empty. Before the pandemic, the aviation industry was expected to make nearly half of the country’s GDP by 2030. In 2018, it made up almost a quarter of the country’s GDP. So, the government has had to find other ways to keep its economy strong.

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The Emirates Mars Mission wasn’t just a way to show the world the UAE flag. The main goal was to get the complete picture of Mars’s weather cycles that have ever been seen. Three main tools on the spacecraft would be used to study Mars.

The first was a high-resolution imaging unit that measured the amount of water, ice, dust, and other particles in the planet’s atmosphere. Next, an infrared spectrometer would measure the temperature of the planet’s surface and the amount of dust in its atmosphere by measuring how much light it gives off. Finally, the ultraviolet spectrometer on Hope would measure the whole planet’s atmosphere and look at its hydrogen and oxygen levels. Hydrogen and oxygen are the building blocks of water, which is the key to life.

Even though more than 30 spacecraft and landers have been to Mars, most of them only took pictures of its weather. Hope planned to do something much more ambitious. It would go into an orbit to let it take a global picture of Mars’ climate and track it through its distinct seasonal changes.

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سجل صاحب السمو الشيخ محمد بن راشد آل مكتوم نائب رئيس الدولة رئيس مجلس الوزراء حاكم دبي في آخر تحديث لسموه اليوم عبر حسابه على تويتر 🔻

اعتمدنا اليوم بناء قمر صناعي سيكون الأحدث في القطاع المدني والتجاري بالمنطقة..بتقنيات جديدة وبكوادر إماراتية ١٠٠٪ وسيكون إسمه MBZ-Sat ... القمر الصناعي السابق حمل اسم خليفة سات .. ويحمل هذا إسم أخي محمد بن زايد حفظه الله.

جهودنا مستمرة في تطوير قطاع فضاء تنافسي متكامل يضم كوادر إماراتية متخصصة .. ورواد فضاء.. ومراكز أبحاث.. ومسبار للمريخ.. ومستكشف للقمر .. وقطاع خاص مستثمر في كل هذا بقوة .. هكذا ستنافس الإمارات عالمياً في قطاع الفضاء.

UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, tweeted today on his official Twitter account 🔻

We approved building the new satellite MBZ-Sat, the region’s most technologically advanced in the civil and commercial sector, to be 100% designed by Emiratis. Our first satellite entirely developed in the UAE was ‘KhalifaSat’ that is already sending high-res space images.

Our efforts continue towards developing a competitive and integrated space sector, led by national experts, astronauts and research centers. Our Hope probe and lunar rover are the beginning of the UAE’s participation in the global race to space.

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UAE to launch the MeznSat satellite

UAE to launch the MeznSat satellite

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The UAE’s achievements in the space sector will receive another boost as it launches the MeznSat satellite on a Russian Soyuz rocket soon, WAM reported.

MeznSat is among the satellites owned and operated by the UAE. According to the UAE Space Agency, MeznSat is being developed by young Emirati citizens from Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi and the American University in Ras Al…

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Launch Results of the H-IIA F40 Encapsulating GOSAT-2 and KhalifaSat

JAXA - Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite GOSAT Project logo. October 29, 2018

H-IIA Launches GOSAT-2 and KhalifaSat

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and JAXA successfully launched H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 40 (H-IIA F40) which encapsulates Second Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite "IBUKI-2" (GOSAT-2) and KhalifaSat, a remote sensing Earth observation satellite. at 13:08:00 on October 29, 2018 JST (04:08 UTC) from the JAXA Tanegashima Space Center.

H-IIA F40 launches GOSAT-2 and KhalifaSat

The launch and flight of H-IIA F40 proceeded as planned. The separations of GOSAT-2 and KhalifaSat were confirmed respectively at approximately 16 minutes and 09 seconds and 24 minutes and 15 seconds after liftoff.

Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite-2 "IBUKI-2" (GOSAT-2)

GOSAT-2 or IBUKI-2 (いぶき2号) is JAXA's Second Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite and KhalifaSat (خليفة سات) is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite, developed by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) in the United Arab Emirates.

GOSAT-2 deployment

JAXA we express sincere appreciation for all. H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 40 Flight Sequence (Quick Estimation): http://global.jaxa.jp/press/2018/10/files/H-IIA_F40_Flight_Sequence.pdf MHI LAUNCH SERVICES: https://www.mhi.com/products/space/launch_service.html H-IIA Launch Vehicle: http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/rockets/h2a/ Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite-2 "IBUKI-2" (GOSAT-2): http://global.jaxa.jp/projects/sat/gosat2/index.html Special Website: Earth Observation Satellites: http://fanfun.jaxa.jp/eos/en/index.html Images, Video, Text, Credits: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)/National Research and Development Agency/Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd./SciNews. Best regards, Orbiter.ch Full article

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SpaceX to launch Emirati imaging satellite

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SpaceX to launch Emirati imaging satellite

DUBAI, U.A.E. — SpaceX has won a contract to launch an Emirati high-resolution imaging satellite on a Falcon 9 rideshare mission in 2023.

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced at an Oct. 27 press conference here, held during the 72nd International Astronautical Congress, that it selected SpaceX to launch its MBZ SAT satellite in the second half 2023. The center did not disclose the value of the contract.

Salem AlMarri, deputy director general of MBRSC, said the center looked at several launch providers for the mission. “At the end of the day, we look, for each mission, what is best. For this mission, SpaceX was the best.”

Amer Al Sayegh Al Ghafri, project manager for MBZ SAT at MBRSC, said the center considered reliability, cost and “opportunity,” or schedules, of various launch providers. “Sometimes it’s very difficult to find the right opportunity or the right time,” he said.

SpaceX stood out because of the reliability of the Falcon 9 and a “very competitive cost” for launching MBZ SAT through SpaceX’s rideshare program, which offers a regular series of dedicated rideshare launches. “MBZ SAT will be one of possibly many other spacecraft on that launch.”

The contract illustrates the challenges that small launch vehicle developers face competing against SpaceX. With a mass of 700 kilograms, MBZ SAT is within the range of several small launch vehicles under development and expected to be in service by 2023. However, the combination of Falcon 9’s track record and low cost outweighed any benefits of selecting a dedicated launch on a smaller rocket.

MBZ SAT is a successor to KhalifaSat, the first imaging satellite built entirely in the U.A.E. Al Ghafri said the new satellite, operating in a 500-kilometer orbit, will have a resolution nearly twice as sharp as KhalifaSat, which has an advertised panchromatic resolution of 70 centimeters.

“With this MBZ SAT project, what we are looking at is to make the U.A.E. a major, leading country in the development of space systems,” he said, using the briefing to highlight several companies in the U.A.E. that are developing structures and electronics for the spacecraft. “MBZ SAT will be one of the most advanced satellites in the world and one of the best in its class.”

The satellite’s design is nearly complete, he said, with a critical design review scheduled for later this quarter. He declined to give the overall cost of the project.

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From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan

“I think the atmosphere has been understudied,” said Philip R. Christensen, a planetary sciences professor at Arizona State University, which built the infrared spectrometer for Hope. That instrument will capture data on the dust particles and ice clouds and track the movement of water vapor and heat through the atmosphere.The spacecraft is to spend at least two years in orbit, monitoring a full cycle of Martian seasons.“I think we’re going to learn a tremendous amount,” Dr. Christensen said.

Brainstorming their way to Mars

Hope will be a well-traveled vehicle even before it heads to space in July.Until Monday, it had never been anywhere near the United Arab Emirates. That day, the finished spacecraft landed in Dubai, after a 7,800-mile trip from Denver inside a Russian-built Antonov cargo plane.After another round of testing in Dubai, one of the seven city-states that make up the U.A.E. federation, the spacecraft will take another long plane trip, to Japan, for the rocket launch to leave Earth.The Emirati Mars strategy replicates what the country did in the 2000s when the Dubai government wanted to build its own earth observation satellites. For that project, Dubai turned to a South Korean satellite manufacturer.The first product of the collaboration, DubaiSat-1, was built in South Korea, with Emirati engineers spending months there, essentially learning as apprentices. It launched in 2009 on a Russian rocket. The 400-pound satellite’s camera has been used for urban planning, disaster relief and environmental monitoring.Its second satellite, DubaiSat-2, included a sharper camera and a faster communications system. It was also built in South Korea, but the work was split more as an equal partnership between the Emirati and South Korean engineers. A third satellite, KhalifaSat, was the first to be developed and built in the U.A.E. Read the full article

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UAE Says its First Astronaut Going Into Space in September

The first astronaut from the United Arab Emirates will blast off into space on Sept. 25 on a trip to the International Space Station, authorities announced Monday. Either military pilot Hazza al-Mansoori or engineer Sultan al-Neyadi will be the first Emirati in space, part of an ambitious space program for this Gulf Arab nation home to the world’s tallest building and the busiest airport for international travel. But the two men, selected from over 4,000 applicants, say they aren’t worried after the recent failure of another Russian rocket carrying astronauts to the space station. “After the incident we were more confident with the preparedness of the mission,” al-Mansoori told The Associated Press. “In case of any failure there is equipment onboard the rocket to ensure the safety of the crew, which made us more confident that the system works with a high level of adequacy.” That incident happened Oct. 11, which saw a Soyuz-FG rocket carrying U.S. astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexei Ovchinin fail shortly after launch due to a damaged sensor. The two men landed safely in Kazakhstan. “The astronauts who were involved will go into space soon,” al-Neyadi said. “This shows how safe the Soyuz is, that astronauts are able to survive in case of any accident.” Both men have undergone intensive training at the Star City space center outside of Moscow, which included pressure chamber tests, centrifuge tests, parabolic flight training, and winter survival training. Parabolic flights allow astronauts to train for being weightless in space. “Since I’m a pilot, I was able to withstand a gravitational force of 9-G,” al-Mansoori said. “Now I must train in this sort of gravitational force, 0-G, the lack of gravity.” Al-Neyadi said the biggest challenge he faced was not a physical one. “The most difficult thing perhaps was learning Russian, since it’s the only language which we will use to communicate with the crew onboard the vessel,” he told the AP. “It was also the language they used while training at the center in Russia.” The Russian Soyuz spacecraft is currently the only vehicle that can ferry crews to the International Space Station after the U.S. space shuttle fleet retired. Organizers had said they’d announce the name of the astronaut going Monday. They didn’t, without offering an explanation. It remains unclear when authorities will choose the first astronaut to go in September. The first astronaut will travel in September with the Russian space mission aboard Soyuz MS-15 and spend eight days at the International Space Station. The selected astronaut will return onboard the Soyuz MS-12 and then be replaced by the second astronaut. The UAE has a fledgling space program with big ambitions. It launched its first locally made satellite, KhalifaSat, in October from Japan. It also wants to launch a probe to Mars in 2020. The UAE also says it wants to colonize Mars by 2117, with a fully functioning city of 600,000. Though the men will be over 400 kilometers (250 miles) above the Earth’s surface while on their trip, the Emirati astronauts will have a taste of home when they travel closer to the stars. Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency quoted an unnamed industry source saying that UAE space travelers have been offered a menu of Arab dishes to select from when they go into space. The men have chosen maqloubeh, a one-pot rice dish, salona, a lamb stew, and the standard hummus, the agency reported. from Blogger https://ift.tt/2BQL4y4 via IFTTT

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‫سمو الشيخ حمدان بن محمد يشكر فريق عمله في مركز محمد بن راشد للفضاء على هذا الإنجاز.. ⁧‫#خليفة_سات‬⁩ Thanks my team ⁦‪@mbrspacecentre‬⁩ 🚀 ⁦‪#teamwork‬⁩ ⁦‪#khalifasat‬⁩ 2018.10.29‬

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MBRSC Releases 0.7 Meter Satellite Image “Mosaic” captured by KhalifaSat

MBRSC Releases 0.7 Meter Satellite Image “Mosaic” captured by KhalifaSat

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the completion of an updated map of the Abu Dhabi and Dubai using the UAE’s first high-resolution satellite image “Mosaic”, captured by KhalifaSat. The system captures a matrix of individual digital images to create a single high-resolution picture of the UAE’s terrain.

This imaging system by MBRSC will provide a comprehensive view of…

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From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan

“I think the atmosphere has been understudied,” said Philip R. Christensen, a planetary sciences professor at Arizona State University, which built the infrared spectrometer for Hope. That instrument will capture data on the dust particles and ice clouds and track the movement of water vapor and heat through the atmosphere.

The spacecraft is to spend at least two years in orbit, monitoring a full cycle of Martian seasons.

“I think we’re going to learn a tremendous amount,” Dr. Christensen said.

Brainstorming their way to Mars

Hope will be a well-traveled vehicle even before it heads to space in July.

Until Monday, it had never been anywhere near the United Arab Emirates. That day, the finished spacecraft landed in Dubai, after a 7,800-mile trip from Denver inside a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane.

After another round of testing in Dubai, one of the seven city-states that make up the U.A.E. federation, the spacecraft will take another long plane trip, to Japan, for the rocket launch to leave Earth.

The Emirati Mars strategy replicates what the country did in the 2000s when the Dubai government wanted to build its own earth observation satellites. For that project, Dubai turned to a South Korean satellite manufacturer.

The first product of the collaboration, DubaiSat-1, was built in South Korea, with Emirati engineers spending months there, essentially learning as apprentices. The Russians launched it in 2009. The 400-pound satellite’s camera has been used for urban planning, disaster relief and environmental monitoring.

Its second satellite, DubaiSat-2, included a sharper camera and a faster communications system. It was also built in South Korea, but the work was split more as an equal partnership between the Emirati and South Korean engineers. A third satellite, KhalifaSat, was the first to be developed and built in the U.A.E.

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Leonardo presenta tecnologie, innovazione e servizi di addestramento al Dubai Airshow

Leonardo partecipa ancora una volta al Dubai Airshow (17-21 novembre) come uno dei più importanti partner delle nazioni del Medio Oriente nei settori aerospaziale, della difesa e della sicurezza, grazie a nuove tecnologie e opportunità di collaborazione nel settore. Leader nei sistemi senza pilota e nelle soluzioni per la metropoli del futuro, che includono la sicurezza informatica, i sistemi anti-drone e la protezione delle infrastrutture, Leonardo si afferma sempre più come partner strategico in grado di creare valore attraverso collaborazioni di successo, basandosi sulla comprovata esperienza come fornitore globale di tecnologia innovativa. L’attenzione allo sviluppo di nuove tecnologie è alla base dell’investimento di Leonardo nella startup Skydweller Aero, specializzata nella produzione di droni a propulsione solare. Il nuovo velivolo Skydweller, che sarà presentato per la prima volta durante un incontro con la stampa proprio al Dubai Airshow, rappresenterà un nuovo importante tassello nell’architettura di sorveglianza aerea di molti Paesi., Gli investimenti nelle tecnologie senza pilota di Leonardo sono dimostrati anche dal Falco Xplorer, il nuovo drone di sorveglianza di Leonardo e dall’AWHERO. Il Falco Xplorer è adatto a operazioni di sicurezza e difesa, garantendo sorveglianza ad ampio raggio, 24 ore su 24, 7 giorni su 7, in qualunque condizione meteorologica, potendo svolgere una vasta gamma di missioni. Con oltre 24 ore di autonomia, il Falco Xplorer raccoglie informazioni oltre l'orizzonte e le trasmette in tempo reale via satellite ai centri di comando. L'AWHERO è un elicottero a pilotaggio remoto all'avanguardia sviluppato per operazioni terrestri e navali ed è la soluzione perfetta in termini di rapporto costo-efficacia per compiti come il pattugliamento navale e delle frontiere, pubblica sicurezza, il monitoraggio del territorio e delle infrastrutture critiche, nonché il supporto alle attività di ricerca e soccorso e di valutazione dei danni durante calamità naturali. Leonardo espone anche l'elicottero di nuova generazione AW169 e promuove il rivoluzionario convertiplano AW609. L'AW169 è l'elicottero intermedio leggero di punta di Leonardo. Falcon Aviation di Abu Dhabi, cliente di lancio della versione offshore, ne opera cinque unità. La presenza di Leonardo nel mercato regionale degli elicotteri è significativa, con oltre 230 unità civili e militari ordinate da vari clienti mediorientali, di cui circa 100 negli Emirati Arabi Uniti, dove Leonardo è leader di mercato. Insieme a servizi di supporto e pacchetti di addestramento, gli AW109, i best-seller AW139, i modelli AW189 e AW169 di nuova generazione, hanno ulteriormente ampliato il successo regionale di Leonardo a supporto dell'industria Oil & Gas e per trasporto passeggeri. Circa il 90% della flotta di elicotteri VVIP degli Emirati Arabi Uniti è costituita da elicotteri Leonardo. Presentato nella duplice veste di addestratore avanzato (AJT) e velivolo da combattimento (FA), l’M-346 è in grado di rispondere a numerosi requisiti delle forze aeree nella regione. L'M-346FA, equipaggiato con il radar Grifo progettato interamente da Leonardo, è un caccia leggero multiruolo e rappresenta una soluzione tattica estremamente competitiva per i moderni scenari operativi. Allo stesso tempo, la versione FA mantiene tutte le caratteristiche dell'M-346AJT, inclusa la suite ETTS (Embedded Tactical Training Simulation). Al Dubai Air Show, Leonardo presenta anche il nuovo M-345, la soluzione di addestramento base ideale. Già ordinato dall'Aeronautica Militare Italiana, l'M-345 sostituirà anche l'MB-339 come velivolo utilizzato dalle "Frecce Tricolori". Tra gli esempi più notevoli del successo dei trainer di Leonardo, anche la squadra acrobatica nazionale degli Emirati “Al Fursan” vola sull’MB-339. Negli Emirati Arabi Uniti, Leonardo è anche impegnata in attività spaziali, come il programma KhalifaSat Earth Observation, in collaborazione con il Mohammed-bin-Rashid Space Center di Dubai. Lanciato nell'ottobre 2018, Leonardo ha fornito i pannelli solari di KhalifaSat. Telespazio, che ha un ruolo di primo piano nella costellazione europea di satelliti Galileo, ha recentemente siglato un accordo con la società degli Emirati Yahsat, per cooperare in ambito della navigazione satellitare, delle telecomunicazioni e geo-informazione. La vasta gamma di sistemi, sensori avionici e soluzioni anti-drone di Leonardo verrà mostrata durante l’Airshow. Tra di essi il nuovo drone aerobersaglio, 'M-40, il radar di sorveglianza AESA di seconda generazione Osprey, le contromisure Miysis DIRCM, recentemente selezionate dalla Royal Air Force britannica, e BriteCloud. Per rispondere alle minacce rappresentate da droni impiegati in modo ostile, Leonardo è anche in grado di fornire soluzioni anti-drone (C-UAS) su misura per clienti civili e militari. Leonardo sta già fornendo le sue tecnologie C-UAS alle forze armate italiane, britanniche e statunitensi e, in alcuni casi, i suoi sistemi sono già stati impiegati nei cieli di alcuni aeroporti. A livello regionale, Leonardo ha fornito – anche tramite la sua controllata statunitense Leonardo DRS – sistemi navali integrati per la gestione del combattimento, l'elettronica terrestre, i sistemi di controllo del fuoco e le radio militari. Attualmente sta perseguendo nuove opportunità sia per il settore terrestre sia per quello navale. Read the full article

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