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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced Tuesday the creation of a consortium of 11 Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Morocco, to develop a common satellite to monitor changes environmental and climatic conditions.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Sovereign of Dubai, paid tribute to the signing of the charter of the Arab Group for Space Cooperation at the second edition of the World Conference on Space Cooperation. 39, space in Abu Dhabi.
"We have witnessed the signing of a charter for the creation of the first Arab group of space cooperation involving 11 Arab countries, and its first projects will be a satellite that will allow Arab scientists to work here from the United Arab Emirates", said Sheikh Mohammed in a tweet on his Twitter account.
He added: "We called the satellite, which will be the work of the Arab scientists" 813. "This is the date of the beginning of the prosperity of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad, at the time of security, of the house that brought together scientists and harnessing the scientific potential of the people of the region, we must all believe in this principle. "
"The satellite will be aimed at Earth observation and environmental and climate change," said the Dubai government's information bureau.
"The design and manufacture of the satellite will involve a number of Arab and youth engineers from countries that have signed the charter to launch the first group of its kind in the Arab world."
The statement did not mention the Arab Member States, but a video recording broadcast by the United Arab Emirates space agency showed representatives of countries such as Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon and Kuwait, in front of the flags of their countries at the signing of the charter.
The United Arab Emirates, which has great ambitions in space, hope to become one of the leading countries in the world and the first Arab country to carry out a program to explore Mars.
In 2014, the UAE announced that in 2021, they planned to launch the "Hope" probe to Mars, the first Arab automatic probe.
The United Arab Emirates also announced last month that the first Emirati astronaut would be sent on a mission to the International Space Station on 25 September.
First Arab astronaut prince, Prince Sultan bin Salman al-Saud was aboard an American space shuttle in 1985. Two years later, Syrian pilot Mohammed Fares spent a week aboard the Soviet Mir space station.
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