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- Shaikh Mohammad, accompanied by other dignitaries, visited the Emirates Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (Eiast) in Dubai on Sunday.
Abu Dhabi: KhalifaSat, the UAE’s first locally-built satellite, is set to be
launched in 2017, said His Highness Shaikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, as he visited
the Emirates Institute for Advanced Science and Technology (Eiast).
“We have launched today, thanks [to] Almighty Allah, executive steps to build
the first UAE-made satellite, the first such breakthrough in the Arab world,”
Shaikh Mohammad told millions of his twitter followers on Sunday.
Shaikh Mohammad said the KhalifaSat, named after the President His Highness
Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, will be launched into orbit in
2017.
“Our confidence in [the] children of the UAE has no limits, so is our
ambitions and success is always granted by Almighty Allah,” Shaikh Mohammad
tweeted.
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