15 September 2022
Kuwait's national satellite team looks forward to cooperating with China in space projects and scientific research, Ahmed Al-Kandri, Deputy and Operations Manager of Kuwait's national satellite project, told Chinese media. After completing the final tests of the first Kuwaiti satellite, KuwaitSAT1, before its launch in November, Kuwait's national satellite team is designing KuwaitSAT2. Hala Al-Jassar, a faculty member in the Physics Department at Kuwait University and the Director of the national satellite project, hailed the KuwaitSAT1 project, which costed about 300,000 Kuwaiti dinars (about 970,000 U.S. dollars), as "a milestone in the field of scientific, environmental and natural phenomena study." KuwaitSAT1 will provide information for the study of coasts and islands through a micro-image captured by a high-quality, high-tech camera. By taking pictures of various cities and areas, the satellite will benefit engineering and environmental studies, said Al-Jassar. The satellite camera's data and photos will be tested for 3 months after launch.
MORE...