Khalifa Sat will be build under the responsibility of the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST).
The website Emirate 247 quoted Sheikh Mohammed saying: ‘‘Khalifa Sat is a message to all Arabs that Arab ushering into the space era is neither out of reach nor impossible and our State will be a leader in this industry as long as we have the confidence and courage to enter into competition with major countries in this field.”
At EIAST, a powerful integrated national team of 45 high caliber engineers and experts are currently establishing advanced facilities and high-tech laboratories for building the satellite. EIAST has previously launched two satellites, DubaiSat 1 and DubaiSat 2, which marked a national milestone as they were the first remote sensing satellites to be fully-owned by a UAE entity.