El Centro Espacial Mohammed Bin Rashid (Mbrsc) de Emiratos Árabes Unidos participó en el lanzamiento de la misión PHI-1.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund supports Madari Space under the UAE Ministry of Finance.
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid reaffirmed the UAE’s ambition to become a global hub for space innovation at Dubai Airshow 2025.
The Emirates Lunar Mission's Rashid Rover 2 has completed development and is being prepared for launch to the Moon in 2026.
Dr. Rashid Abdi warned that Turkey’s security deal with Somalia may include a space facility with potential ballistic missile applications.
Rashid 2 will have largely the same science and technology goals as the first Rashid rover.
Firefly and the UAE space agency MBRSC selected Firefly’s second Blue Ghost lander to carry the UAE’s second Rashid rover to the Moon.
The UAE’s first near-identical Rashid rover launched in 2023 but could not operate on the Moon because ispace Japan’s first Moon lander carrying the rover crashed.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Explorer spacecraft is scheduled to launch on Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ H3 launch vehicle in early 2028.
The UAE Space Agency and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries signed an agreement for Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to provide launch services for the Mohammed Bin Rashid Explorer spacecraft aboard the H3 launch vehicle.
The planned UAE small rover for Chang’e-7 was intended to be based on the Rashid rover that was lost aboard ispace’s Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander.
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched DEWA’s Space-D program in January 2021.
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum is the Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of The Executive Council.
DEWA-SAT2 was designed and developed at DEWA’s Research and Development Centre at the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park in cooperation with NanoAvionics in Lithuania.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park is the largest single-site solar park in the world and operates using the Independent Power Producer (IPP) model.
China and the United Arab Emirates signed a memorandum of understanding in September 2022 for the Rashid II rover to fly on the lander of the Chang'e-7 mission.
The United Arab Emirates and China reached an agreement in September for the Rashid II rover to fly with the Chang’e-7 lander targeting the lunar south pole, with the mission currently scheduled for 2026.
Dubai Municipality launched the geospatial business and innovation incubator GeoHub through cooperation between its Geographical Information System Centre, the Mohammed Bin Rashid Establishment for Small and Medium Enterprises Development (Dubai SME), and the Hamdan Innovation Incubator.
Rashid 1 is a 10-kilogram rover that will be carried by the Hakuto-R lander developed by Japanese firm ispace and launched later 2022 on a Falcon 9 rocket.
DEWA-SAT 1 was designed and developed at DEWA’s R&D Centre in the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park.