UAE to launch Nayif-1 satellite from India

[Khafee]

India to launch record 104 satellites on Feb 15
IANS | Bengaluru February 6, 2017

Of 104 satellites, 33 are Indian, 88 US, rest from Israel, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Switzerland, UAE


India will create history by launching a record 104 satellites, including 101 foreign ones, on February 15 from Sriharikota spaceport in Andhra Pradesh, an official said on Monday.

"We have tentatively decided to launch the satellites at one go around 9 am into the sun-synchronous orbit, about 500 kms above the earth," the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) official said.

Of the total earth-observation satellites, three are Indian, 88 are from the US and the remaining are from Israel, Kazakhstan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.


"A 320-tonne rocket -- Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C37) -- will launch all the satellites with a combined weight of 1,500 kg, including the 650 kg remote-sensing Cartosat-2 and two nano-satellites (IA and IB) weighing 15 kg each," the official said.

Though the Indian space agency had launched 20 satellites in one shot on June 22, 2016, the launch of 104 satellites will surpass the 37 satellites launch record set in June 2014 and 29 satellites launched by NASA in 2013.
http://www.business-standard.com/ar...-104-satellites-on-feb-15-117020600342_1.html

UAE space program run by Indians. Plus, they have very close ties with Indian or trustable partnership.

Why do you have to comment on things you are bloody clueless about, as usual.

Read the article below and see who actually made the nano-sat.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/scien...loped-by-emirati-students-ready-for-launching

 

[PatriotLover]

Why do you have to comment on things you are bloody clueless about, as usual.

Read the article below and see who actually made the nano-sat.
http://www.thenational.ae/uae/scien...loped-by-emirati-students-ready-for-launching

Launching with foreign help does not count as having a full space program. We make better sats than the bullshit you made 'yourself'.

 

[Jugger]

India has good track record for sending up satellites, the success rate is very high.
A very wise and economic decision by UAE.

 

[RISING SUN]

UAE to launch Nayif-1 satellite from India
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nayif-1-satellite-to-launched-this-month

Currently, a team of specialists at MBRSC and AUS are working to ascertain the readiness of the ground station
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) announced that Nanosatellite Nayif-1 will be from India.

Made in collaboration with emirati students from the American University of Sharjah (AUS), the nanosatellite will launch between the 14th and 25th February 2017, from Satish Dhahwan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on board a PSLV-C37 rocket.

Currently, a team of specialists at MBRSC and AUS are working to ascertain the readiness of the ground station located at the university, from which the satellite will be operated and controlled after its launch.

Nayif-1's main mission objective is to send and receive messages on Amateur Radio frequencies. The nanosatellite boasts a number of advanced features, most notably that it is programmed to transfer messages in Arabic. It also holds an Active Control System Board that has not been launched into space before.
Commenting on setting the launch date, H.E. Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani, Director General of MBRSC, expressed his pride of the Emirati students who participated in all phases of developing Nayif-1.

He also pointed out that four of the student that worked on Nayif-1 have been selected to join the MBRSC team to work on the Emirates Mars Mission - Hope mission and KhalifaSat project.

Al Shaibani said that the educational CubeSat project, Nayif-1, represents an important step in line with the MBRSC strategy aiming to building national human capacities in the UAE universities and providing training on satellite manufacturing technology.

He pointed out that the Centre will focus in the future on training other students on how to manage and operate the ground station, communicate with the satellite to transmit and receive messages, as well as using data in new scientific experiments, such as studying the motion of the satellite in space.

"This kind of space project is of a high priority for government and educational institutions worldwide, because it provides extensive knowledge to researchers, as well as the basics of satellite manufacturing and space system testing. Over the past two years, we began to establish CubeSat manufacturing technology in the UAE, to be used in environmental and development-related fields which are of interest to the community," he added.

Nayif-1 has been tested on ground and has successfully passed all tests on its subsystems, such as the power and control subsystems, satellite antenna and communication subsystem. These tests were followed by the full system environmental tests, including thermal and vibration tests.

The knowledge transfer programme and the project were implemented in partnership with Innovative Solutions in Space, one of the leading companies worldwide in the development of space components and NanoSatellite Systems. MBRSC took the role of the integrator in the process and ensured that all necessary processes were in place to preserve and build upon the experience gained.

It's good that ISRO is able to provide services to people all across the world with reliability.

 

[Khafee]

Launching with foreign help does not count as having a full space program. We make better sats than the bullshit you made 'yourself'.

Why are you going nuts over university students making 10cm3 nano sats? Don't you have anything better to do in life?

 

[egodoc222]

It was a perfect launch...hope you guys got what u hoped for!!

Why are you going nuts over university students making 10cm3 nano sats? Don't you have anything better to do in life?

Not many universities can do that and also as they say every successful story has humble beginnings...you got to start somewhere!!

 

[Sliver]

launched a UAE satellite and an Israeli satellite on the same vehicle. either great business acumen or successful diplomacy to have good relations with both UAE and israel at the same time.

 

[Khafee]

launched a UAE satellite and an Israeli satellite on the same vehicle. either great business acumen or successful diplomacy to have good relations with both UAE and israel at the same time.

Majority of the nano sats were foreign only 33 out of 104 were Indian. So yes, they definitely did something right here.

 

[egodoc222]

launched a UAE satellite and an Israeli satellite on the same vehicle. either great business acumen or successful diplomacy to have good relations with both UAE and israel at the same time.

We are largest buyer of Iranian crude oil and gas and biggest customer of Israeli weapons.

 

[Nilgiri]

launched a UAE satellite and an Israeli satellite on the same vehicle. either great business acumen or successful diplomacy to have good relations with both UAE and israel at the same time.

There is room for both you know