Khalifa Sat
Sign in to saveKhalifaSat (), is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite that was designed and built at the Space Technology Laboratories of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. It is considered the first entirely Emirati-made satellite. It launched into orbit on 30 October 2018 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center using the Korean Satrec SI-300 bus.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- KhalifaSat
- Spaceflight.names_list
- KhalifaSat, DubaiSat-3
- Spaceflight.image
- KhalifaSat_UAE_Satellite.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Artist rendering of KhalifaSat
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Remote sensing
- Spaceflight.operator
- MBRSC
- Spaceflight.COSPAR_ID
- 2018-084F
- Spaceflight.SATCAT
- 43676
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 5 years (planned) (elasped)
- Spaceflight.spacecraft_bus
- SI-300
- Spaceflight.manufacturer
- Space Technology Laboratories of MBRSC
- Spaceflight.launch_mass
- 330 kg
- Spaceflight.power
- 450 watts
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- 29 October 2018, 04:08:00 UTC
- Spaceflight.launch_rocket
- H-IIA 202
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Tanegashima, Yoshinobu 1
- Spaceflight.launch_contractor
- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
- Spaceflight.orbit_reference
- Geocentric orbit
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- artificial satellite
- Operator
- Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre
- Image
- KhalifaSat UAE Satellite.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
Show 3 more facts
- type of orbit
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2018-10-29
- space launch vehicle
- H-IIA
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Objectives
- Technical insights
- KhalifaSat camera system (KHCS)
- Imaging modes
- Critical design review
- Launch window
- Ground control
- Team
- References
KhalifaSat (), is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite that was designed and built at the Space Technology Laboratories of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. It is considered the first entirely Emirati-made satellite. It launched into orbit on 30 October 2018 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center using the Korean Satrec SI-300 bus.
==Overview== The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre is a Dubai government based space centre working on the National Space programme. MBRSC already has two Earth observation satellites in orbit, DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2, which were built in partnership with Satrec Initiative, a South Korean satellite manufacturer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khalifa Sat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.