{"id":75932,"date":"2014-10-21T01:32:30","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eiast-finishes-design-review-of-khalifasat-on-track-for-2017-launch\/"},"modified":"2014-10-21T01:32:30","modified_gmt":"2014-10-20T17:32:30","slug":"eiast-finishes-design-review-of-khalifasat-on-track-for-2017-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eiast-finishes-design-review-of-khalifasat-on-track-for-2017-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"EIAST Finishes Design Review of KhalifaSat, On Track for 2017 Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 10-20-2014] The <b>Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology <\/b>(EIAST) has concluded a Detailed Design Review of KhalifaSat, the first satellite to be fully manufactured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The KhalifaSat bus will resemble DubaiSat 2, but with room to support a more developed camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe technologies for KhalifaSat were enhanced by 30 percent compared to DubaiSat 2, including a highly sophisticated camera system, which will image at a resolution of 70cm; more storage capacity, faster download speed, and better computing capabilities,\u201d said Amer Al Sayegh, director of the Space Systems Development Department at EIAST and KhalifaSat project manager.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers have developed new software for both this and future satellite projects. The mock-up model of the satellite is nearly complete, after which EIAST will manufacture the flight model for a 2017 launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 10-20-2014] The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has concluded a Detailed Design Review of KhalifaSat, the first satellite to be fully manufactured in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The KhalifaSat bus will resemble DubaiSat 2, but with room to support a more developed camera. \u201cThe technologies for KhalifaSat were enhanced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75933,"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-75932","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\/75932"}],"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=75932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}