The UAE has built an asteroid lander that engineers don't expect to survive its own arrival. After an eight-year trip of about 5 billion km, the probe will hit 269 Justitia at 15 to 27 m/s (34 to 60 mph), according to the mission team, with no meaningful way to brake.

"We don't expect that the probe will survive the touchdown," said Mariam Alhammadi, a researcher at Abu Dhabi's Technology Innovation Institute (TII), which built the lander.

In the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA), seven asteroids will be visited. The........

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