Moroccan university launches two satellites from California
To Latif Baraka: Heba Press
Mohammed V University of Rabat, through Space
This launch, which took place on August 16, is the result of coordination between the Mohammed V University of Rabat, the National Institute of Scientific and Technical Research and the Royal Center for Space Studies and Research.
This vast project will support the process that the Kingdom is experiencing in terms of supporting research projects in space techniques and technologies and constitutes an important incentive for Moroccan researchers in various universities, especially since the results of this project and the information that the two satellites will collect will be disseminated to research centers and laboratories for evaluation and scientific assessment on the technical level and to provide researchers with the information they need in various fields.
Both satellites have a mass of no more than four kilograms and each measure 300*100*100 mm. The first is equipped with a ground surveillance camera and is called UM5 EOSAT, equipped with ground surveillance cameras, and the other, under the name UM5 Ribat, is equipped with a Logical SDR radio, which will allow it to carry out communications and communicate with various ground vehicles, as well as determine the location of aircraft, ships and battleships, and collect information from docking stations for aircraft, ships and vehicles of various types.
Researchers from Mohammed V University have updated the uses of these satellites according to the expected and programmed needs and uses.
This achievement, considered pioneering at the African and international levels, required about three years of work by experts and researchers from the University Center for Research in Space Technologies (CURTS) affiliated with the Mohammedia School of Engineering in Rabat, which will be responsible for exploiting these two artificial nano-satellites as well as the data available through the stations with which they will communicate while ensuring technical monitoring. The various information and data obtained will be shared with the universities of the Kingdom and various specialized centers interested in the valuable data that the two satellites will provide to researchers.
The vast scientific project launched by Mohammed V University with its national partners reflects the real and practical involvement of the University in the royal vision of investing and promoting the results of purely academic research in the support and development of applied technologies and technologies at the service of science and knowledge.
