In October 2020, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, announced the new MBZ-Sat satellite, which bears the name of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Commander. Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces.
The MBZ-Sat project is the second Emirati satellite to be developed and built by a team of Emirati engineers, after the “KhalifaSat” satellite, as the UAE will build 90% of the mechanical structure of the satellite, and will manufacture 50% of the electronic units of the new moon.
The participation rate of women in the development of the MBZ-Sat satellite is more than 45 percent.
It is being worked on at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center in Dubai, and it is the most advanced civil satellite in the region in the field of high-resolution and high-resolution satellite imaging.
The new satellite “MBZ-Sat” is also the fourth Earth observation satellite developed and launched by the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center; It enhances the center’s efforts to expand its portfolio of imaging technologies and products for government agencies and commercial institutions around the world.
How does the new moon work?
The satellite “MBZ-Sat” weighs 700 kilograms, and will be equipped with a 24-hour image arrangement system, ensuring it provides images that simulate the highest quality standards of satellite images intended for commercial uses in the world.
According to the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center, the satellite has a high ability to improve the accuracy of capturing images by more than double compared to its previously launched counterpart, in addition to increasing the speed of data transmission and uploading, by three times over the capabilities currently available.
The moon’s fully automated scheduling and image-processing system helps produce up to ten times the amount of images the center currently produces.
After launching the satellite into LEO, the ground station team at the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center will operate the satellite, receive and analyze the data received from it, make recommendations and provide high-resolution data and images to local and international entities and entities, through the ground station equipped with the latest technologies.
In parallel, the center presents the processed data, along with high-resolution images of relevant local and international entities and entities via an advanced platform specially designed for this purpose.
How can it be used?
The MBZ-Sat is expected to meet the growing commercial demand for satellites that provide high-resolution images that allow viewing of detail within an area of less than one square meter, one of the most advanced features in space.
There are various ways to benefit from the images and data provided by the center; It can be used in the areas of sustainable urban planning, monitoring environmental changes, as well as forecasting natural weather phenomena and monitoring water quality.
In addition to supporting efforts to respond to crises and global disaster management, which includes assessment of damage caused by disasters, in addition to assistance in finding solutions to mitigate the effects of floods, earthquakes and other natural disasters, and reconstruction.
The satellite relies on a global processing network, by utilizing the machine learning capabilities of the service provider, which enables the processing of requests and the delivery of high-resolution images in a short time.
By submitting online requests, government agencies and businesses can obtain high-resolution images around the clock, and image processing and downloading can be completed in less than two hours from receiving the request, depending on the location of the satellite.
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