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두바이 1호는 무사히 무중력 궤도 진입하면, 30일 오전장에 발사성공 보도는 해 줄 모양 입니다."

 DubaiSat-1 Heads into Orbit Martin Croucher

30 July 2009 DUBAI - Engineers were celebrating the successful launch of the UAE’s first government satellite last night.

DubaiSat-1 took off on a Dnepr rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan last night on schedule at 10.46 UAE time.

It will orbit 680km above Earth, at a speed of 27,000kph. It is expected to beam back its first images in a matter of days. The satellite was stacked in the nose cone of a converted intercontinental ballistic missile with five other satellites from around the world.

Among them will be the UK-DMC2 and Deimos-1 satellites operated by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd - a company with several contracts in the UAE.

DubaiSat-1 was developed by a South Korean firm with the cooperation of 16 UAE engineers from the Emirates Institute of Advanced Science and Technology.

It was shipped to the former Soviet base in Kazakhstan at the beginning of July and engineers had been checking systems on board since then.

martin@khaleejtimes.com

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UAE's first satellite in orbit
Charlie Hamilton

Last Updated: July 30. 2009 1:23AM UAE / July 29. 2009 9:23PM GMT 
An artist's impression of the DubaiSat-1, which has successfully launched from Kazakhstan. Fred Matamoros for The National
ABU DHABI // The UAE’s first government satellite, DubaiSat-1, is currently circling the globe after a successful overnight launch today from Kazakhstan.

Audrey Nice, spokesperson for Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), which is also using the Dnepr-1 rocket to launch a separate satellite confirmed that the launch sequence was “seamless”.

“The rocket lifted off at 00.46 [local time]. Everything went according to plan. All the satellites separated successfully and they are all currently in orbit.
“The launch went very well. It was an absolutely seamless launch.”

She added the satellites’ receiver stations would now begin a process known as “acquisition,” where they would establish contact with the satellites.

Nobody from the Dubai-based Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), which managed the Dh184 million (US$50 million) project was available to confirm the launch was successful. And the spokesman from Asda’a, the organisation’s public relations company, could not be reached.

The satellite will use a high-resolution camera to photograph the region; the images will be beamed back to the UAE for use in urban planning and disaster relief.

Experts say that in its low-altitude orbit, it should be visible to the naked eye and resemble a moving star.

Anxious Emirati engineers were gathered at a viewing station at the cosmodrome to watch the 200kg remote sensing satellite lift off.

The spacecraft was one of several attached to a modified Russian intercontinental ballistic missile.

Once it reaches orbit, the satellite’s orientation and communications systems will power up and test images will be sent back using a high-bandwidth radio transmitter.

Within days, the hexagonal satellite, which measures a little more than a metre across, should be fully operational.

“With the launch of DubaiSat-1, the UAE joins a league of nations that have made strong inroads in space research and technology,” Mohammed al Ghanim, the chairman of the EIAST board, said in May.

chamilton@thenational.ae

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