Arab Space Capabilities

[Yzd Khalifa]

KACST is one of our nation's pride

 

[Cyberian]

UAE to launch indigenous satellite in 2017
Tuesday December 31, 2013

EIAST was set up in 2016 by the UAE government. Eiast already put DubaiSat-1 in orbit which is used to take detailed images of the UAE which consists of seven emirates located at the South- Western coastline of the Arab peninsula.

United Arab Emirates (UAE) vice president and prime minister ordered here on Sunday the executive phase for building the first satellite whose parts are solely produced in the Gulf Arab oil state and which is planned to be placed on orbit by 2017, local news agency WAM reported.

The first UAE-made satellite will be called Khali Sat, named after the UAE president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan. According to the report, the project would catapult the Arab region into a new era of space industry and competition in space sciences."

While launching the promising project at the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), UAE prime minister Sheikh Mohammed said "Khalifa Sat is a message to all Arabs that Arab ushering into the space era is neither out of reach nor impossible and our State will be a leader in this industry as long as we have the confidence and courage to enter into competition with major countries in this field."

The prime minister invited the Arab nations to co-operate with EIAST. "Our doors will remain open for cooperation with all Arab countries in space technology and engineering," said Sheikh Mohammed who is also the ruling emir of Dubai.

The report did not reveal for which purposes the first indigenous satellite would be produced.

Earlier in the year on Oct. 18, Salem Al-Marri, the assistant director general for scientific and technical affairs told the UAE daily The National, his country would be ready in early 2015 to build its own satellite.

EIAST was set up in 2016 by the UAE government. Eiast already put DubaiSat-1 in orbit which is used to take detailed images of the UAE which consists of seven emirates located at the South- Western coastline of the Arab peninsula.

A second satelite DubaiSat-2 was launched from Yasny Cosmodrome in Russia on Nov. 21 2013. The development costs were around 50 million dollars (Dh183m) per satellite, Mr Al Marri said.

UAE to launch indigenous satellite in 2017

 

[Nishan_101]

Why KSA, UAE, Jordan and Oman do a JV on launching and developing a GPS system of their own. Having 21-30 stationary Satellites in orbit. Also Similar program from communication satellites so that they can sell services to militaries as well as for commercial ones.

 

[burning_phoneix]

The next step would be developing the ability to research and produce rockets to launch our own sats instead of relying on the Russian Cosmodrome.

But of course, everyone will spin it into a "ARABS ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP ICBMS!" and the US will stop the program.

 

[Cohen1984]

The next step would be developing the ability to research and produce rockets to launch our own sats instead of relying on the Russian Cosmodrome.

But of course, everyone will spin it into a "ARABS ARE TRYING TO DEVELOP ICBMS!" and the US will stop the program.

Ah, interesting!

UAE leads the Middle East's race into space

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[Yzd Khalifa]

Ah, interesting!



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I hope it won't be as interesting as the kind of reactions Israel had shown in response to the EU boycotts.

 

[BenRichardson]

" Science & Technology“Harvests 6 U.S. Patents

King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) gained six new patents from the U.S. Intellectual Property Office in fields of optical sensors as it also filed for two other patents there in addition to getting five patents from the Saudi Patent Office.
Dr. Munir Mahmoud Aldessouki, The supervisor of the National Center for Nanotechnology Research at KACST and the Principal researcher in these newly achieved innovations, indicated that the Saudi new inventions are represented in designing cameras equipped with smart optical units and specially-designed electronic circuits for ultra speed and highly sensitive imaging.
Dr. Aldessouki explained that the increase in the number of electronic circuits inside the optical unit results the image’s poor quality while the Saudi inventions designed special electronic circuits for use inside the optical unit featured with very small area compared to conventional optical units.
According to Dr. Aldessouki, the innovated electronic circuits save nearly 90 % of the area of the unit optical while keeping features of the smart optical units intact, stressing that the new Saudi inventions have wide range of applications in space remote imaging systems via satellites as well as the medical fields including early detection of cancer using the property of measuring fluorine life-span in living cells.
The supervisor of the National Center for Nanotechnology Research at KACST underlined that these inventions have been designed by the research team at KACST to serve space imagining applications through satellites via designing a camera that adopts integration time delay using cost effective technologies, pointing out that the percentage of Saudis working in the Nanotechnology National Center at KACST accounts for about 98% of the working staff.
It is worth mentioning that the National Center for Nanotechnology Research at KACST owns 11 patents besides 75 patent applications under study. All these patents support the Kingdom’s classification and ranking in scientific research among countries of the world, provide opportunities for, economy diversification and creating new jobs. KACST is currently working on transferring these patents to the Saudi Company for Development and Investment for commercialization and promotion.

In the news on the website of Kacst

 

[Cohen1984]

I hope it won't be as interesting as the kind of reactions Israel had shown in response to the EU boycotts.

@500 @Archdemon

It's not interesting??

UAE leads the Middle East's race into space

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

The UAE appears to have succeeded in marketing its UAVs.

Russia Planning to Buy Aerial Drones in UAE – Source | Defense | RIA Novosti

Russia 'to buy two UAE-made drones' | The National

UAE UAV Eyes Global Market


I wonder, which country is next to buy from them? :/

 

[Archdemon]

@500 @Archdemon

It's not interesting??

Nope...

 

[amr bin abd wid al amiri]

Iraq is the first arab country to launch missile to space and we were first arab country to reach nuclear power on our own our scientists did it without help of foreign country

 

[jarves]

Why KSA, UAE, Jordan and Oman do a JV on launching and developing a GPS system of their own. Having 21-30 stationary Satellites in orbit. Also Similar program from communication satellites so that they can sell services to militaries as well as for commercial ones.

Maybe because they have access to American GPS.

 

[Nishan_101]

Maybe because they have access to American GPS.

But they should have their own system as well along with Communication satellites.

 

[jarves]

But they should have their own system as well along with Communication satellites.

Pakistan is also using Chinese GPS,going by this logic you also need your own GPS.
And GPS covering whole earth is costly also and not to forget these nations dont have the capability to launch satellites by themselves.

 

[Nishan_101]

Pakistan is also using Chinese GPS,going by this logic you also need your own GPS.
And GPS covering whole earth is costly also and not to forget these nations dont have the capability to launch satellites by themselves.

What I am saying is that KSA, UAE, Jordan, Oman and Yemen should combine to have their own Satellite launch platforms of three types, being able to launch small, medium and very large payloads in space.

Moreover, they should look in to JV to make their own GPS satellite system consisting of 21-30 stationary satellites covering the whole planet along with similar number of Communication satellites. Both are good, as they can then sell their services to other countries other then their own use.