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Image Courtesy: www.khaleejtimes.com UAE students who have built a nanosatellite, which expects to handle climate change, will complete the last tests before launching it into space by the end of 2019. About 30 students at the American Universi...
Image Courtesy: www.khaleejtimes.com
UAE students who have built a nanosatellite, which expects to handle climate change, will complete the last tests before launching it into space by the end of 2019.
About 30 students at the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (AURAK) and the Khalifa University have cooperated on building the nanosatellite called MeznSat. It was declared recently that the UAE Space Agency will utilize the administrations of Exolaunch, a German firm, to send the nanosatellite into space.
A mechanical engineering student, Basel Altawil, at AURAK who helped with this project. "The progress of the MeznSat is that it is in the testing phase. We did the critical design last month and, right now, we are doing the thermal and vibration testing, which is the last step of testing before launching," he said.
"I've been involved in this project for three years, and I've helped with the design of the custom port and the thermal stimulators," he added. The most important objective of this project to help students develop an interest in space and space-related technologies.
Altawil said more than 90% of the students associated with the venture are Emiratis, and it helped a lot of them build interest and gain knowledge in the field.
Another AURAK student who has been a part of the MeznSat group for some time is software engineering student Fatema Alayyan.
"With the launch coming up, it's very frightening. There was a lot of work to do and there has been so much effort put into it," she said. "We are looking forward to launching it and we hope it will work properly."
The MeznSat incorporates two payloads, an RGB camera, deployable antennas, a communication system to speak with the ground station, a locally available computer to quantify sensor information on the satellite, and a spectrometer, which will gauge the gases.
The UAE Space Agency has put a solid spotlight on creating space-related information across educational institutions. It has worked with the Ministry of Education to make space studies available in schools.
A year ago, the MySat-1 nanosatellite, which was created by Khalifa University students, was launched into the orbit.
This news was previously published on: www.khaleejtimes.com
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