{"id":63723,"date":"2018-10-30T00:49:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/mitsubishi-heavy-industries-delivers-uaes-khalifasat-into-orbit\/"},"modified":"2018-10-30T00:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T16:49:40","slug":"mitsubishi-heavy-industries-delivers-uaes-khalifasat-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/mitsubishi-heavy-industries-delivers-uaes-khalifasat-into-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Delivers UAE\u2019s KhalifaSat into Orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries<\/strong> (MHI) successfully delivered the&nbsp;KhalifaSat satellite into orbit today, via the H-IIA launch vehicle F40.&nbsp;KhalifaSat was manufactured by the&nbsp;United Arab Emirates\u2019 (UAE)<strong> Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center<\/strong>&nbsp;(MBRSC). The launch vehicle trajectory was executed as planned, and at about 24 minutes after liftoff, separation of the KhalifaSat satellite was confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>This mission was performed along with <strong>Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/strong>\u2018s (JAXA) Greenhouse gases Observing Satellite-2 \u201cGosat-2\u201d satellite, in which the separation of the Gosat-2 satellite was also confirmed 16 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>KhalifaSat is the first national satellite manufactured by the UAE, thus the mission should prove to be a great step towards UAE\u2019s mid-and-long term plans in government space activities and industries. Additionally, MHI holds the launch service contract for the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) spacecraft \u2013planned to launch in 2020&nbsp;\u2013 through which it hopes to build upon a strong and lasting relationship with the MBRSC and UAESA (UAE Space Agency).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) successfully delivered the&nbsp;KhalifaSat satellite into orbit today, via the H-IIA launch vehicle F40.&nbsp;KhalifaSat was manufactured by the&nbsp;United Arab Emirates\u2019 (UAE) Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center&nbsp;(MBRSC). The launch vehicle trajectory was executed as planned, and at about 24 minutes after liftoff, separation of the KhalifaSat satellite was confirmed. This mission was performed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}