UAE space sector/ qualitative achievements in 2025 enhance the state’s position as a global center for advanced technology

Abu Dhabi, October 4 / WAM / The UAE Space Sector has achieved, during the year 2025, qualitative achievements that enhance the state’s position as a global center for advanced technology and knowledge industries, and embodies the UAE’s continuous commitment to enhancing its space capabilities, and its intention to expand the circle of international cooperation in this field, with a focus on making a generation of astronauts and Emirati administrative and technical staff specialized in this sector.
Today, the activities of the “World Space Week”, which was approved by the United Nations from October 4 to 10 of each year, will start today to celebrate the contributions of space science and technology in improving human status in general.
The occasion comes, and the UAE started the first quarter this year with the launch of 6 various satellites, as the “Thuraya 4” satellite launched on January 4, and 4 other satellites are “Mohammed bin Zayed Sat”, “Al Ain Sat-1”, “HCT-SAT 1”, and the second stage of the “Forsite” constellation, on the 14th of the same month, to the launch of the radar satellite ” Sat “on March 15th.
The UAE has established its active and influential presence in space science and its technologies, by signing last February a cooperation agreement between the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center and the company “Tallis Alienia Space” as the strategic partner in the lunar space station project, by developing the “pressure equation unit” within the lunar station; The UAE will undertake the task of developing and operating the unit for a period of up to 15 years, which can be extended.
The UAE will get a permanent seat and scientific contributions to the largest program to explore the moon and space, and will be among the first countries to send an astronaut to the moon, and it will be priority in obtaining the scientific and engineering data that the station will get, which enhances its cognitive career.
Last May, the UAE witnessed the signing of a strategic agreement between the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center and the American “Firefly Airbace” company, to be the authority responsible for transferring the explorer “Rashid 2” to the surface of the moon within the Emirates Exploration of the Moon.
Under the agreement, the explorer “Rashid 2” will be launched to the distant side of the moon aboard the lunar landing vehicle “Blue Ghost” of the company “Firefly Airbace”, which is installed on the tropical vehicle “Eleera Dark”, to be the second mission in history that seeks to land on this side of the moon.
“Rashid 2” will join the mission of “Blue Ghoste Machine 2” in the year 2026, which includes loads from the European Space Agency, NASA and Australia.
The UAE joins, through the “Rashid 2” explorer, to the list of the few countries that are fighting the exploration of the distant side of the moon, allowing it to collect specific scientific data that contributes to the development of future technologies related to lunar infrastructure.
In the same context, the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center announced the expansion of its cooperation with the National Center for Space Studies in France, with the aim of providing the task of “Rashid 2” with innovative technologies that enhance its scientific capabilities and operational efficiency.
The French Center, according to the Memorandum of Understanding, will provide the explorer “Rashid 2” with two cameras and “CASPEX” unit, which is advanced equipment that has proven effective in previous space tasks, which supports image processing and achieving the scientific goals of the mission on the moon.
For its part, the National Space Academy launched the training program in designing space missions and satellite engineering in partnership with the “Edge” group.
This program, which is presented in cooperation with the “Space” and “Becken” company of the “Edge” group, aims to build the next generation of satellite engineers, systems engineers, and mission leaders in the UAE through practical training in space mission systems.
The program provides professional, Emirati researchers and graduates with expertise specialized in designing satellite tasks, space systems engineering and missions, which enables them to support and accelerate space capacity development.
In the new developments of the UAE project to explore the asteroid belt, the Emirates Space Agency announced last April to complete the final design phase of the project, which is the first scientific task of its kind ever to study 7 asteroids in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The Emirates Space Agency has signed an agreement at the beginning of this year, an agreement with the Institute of Technology Innovation (TII) to develop the landing vehicle for the Emirates mission to explore the asteroid belt.
Last July, the UAE celebrated the fifth anniversary of the “probe of hope”, the first Arab and Islamic satellite mission to explore Mars, which it launched on July 20, 2020 from the Tangashima Space Center in Japan; Where the probe continues its mission successfully, providing unprecedented scientific data on the atmosphere of Mars, which is shared with dozens of research centers, universities and scientific institutions around the world.

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