{"id":78953,"date":"2013-12-31T21:16:23","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/uae-announces-plans-for-first-domestically-built-satellite\/"},"modified":"2013-12-31T21:16:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T13:16:23","slug":"uae-announces-plans-for-first-domestically-built-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/uae-announces-plans-for-first-domestically-built-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE Announces Plans for First Domestically-Built Satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 12-31-13] United Arab Emirates (UAE) prime minister and VP Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that the UAE will launch its first locally-constructed satellite in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s two existing Earth observation satellites DubaiSat 1 and DubaiSat 2 were both built in Seoul, South Korea, in a partnership with <b>Satrec<\/b>; they are operated by the <b>Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology <\/b>(EIAST). The new satellite, named KhalifaSat after UAE president Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will be made completely by and within the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur doors will remain open for cooperation with all Arab countries in space technology and engineering,\u2019\u2019 said Shaikh Mohammad.<\/p>\n<p>Currently the EIAST has assembled a team of 45 Emirati engineers that have begun working on KhalifaSat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 12-31-13] United Arab Emirates (UAE) prime minister and VP Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced that the UAE will launch its first locally-constructed satellite in 2017. The country\u2019s two existing Earth observation satellites DubaiSat 1 and DubaiSat 2 were both built in Seoul, South Korea, in a partnership with Satrec; they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62115,"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-78953","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\/78953"}],"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=78953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}