Resolution on the establishment of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
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His
Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and
Prime Minister of the UAE, has issued, in his capacity as the Ruler of
Dubai, a resolution establishing the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre
(MBRSC), to which, the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and
Technology (EIAST) shall affiliate. The Centre is mandated to develop
research, projects and studies on space, in a way that will support
UAE's drive for advancing this sector and for building national
capabilities related to the space knowledge and science. The Centre
shall oversee preparations and implementation of all phases of the UAE
probe exploration mission to Mars, additionally; it will work on all
projects related to science and applications of satellites, as well as
other advanced technology projects assigned to it by the relevant
authorities. The preparations for the launch of the first Arab Islamic
probe to explore Mars through 2021have started, in a nine-month trip,
during which it will cross more than 60 million km, UAE will be among
the nine countries in the world who have space programs to explore the
red planet.
4/19/2015
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