DubaiSat-1 celebrates 6th anniversary with Burj Khalifa images

Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre celebrates the 6 year anniversary of the DubaiSat-1 Launch. The satellite took high quality images of the Burj Khalifa and Emirates Towers in celebration. Courtesy ComShow more

The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre on Tuesday celebrated the sixth anniversary of DubaiSat-1, the first remote sensing satellite owned by the UAE.

To mark the occasion DubaiSat-1 took high quality images of the Burj Khalifa. “Today, six years after its launch, the satellite remains accurate and maintains regular operations to date,” said Yousuf Al Shaibani, the centre’s director general.

“It is a matter of patriotic pride for us that Emirati engineers participated in 30 per cent of the building tasks when we were at the manufacturing stage.”