MOON OF KUWAIT SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO ORBIT

  • 04/07/2021

Kuwait City: ‘Moon of Kuwait’, or QMR-KWT as the satellite is known officially, was blasted off into space last week onboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in the United States. Revealing the launch of Kuwait’s first satellite into orbit, Bassam Al-Feeli, the founder and general manager of Orbital Space, the company that developed QMR-KWT said: “This is a 1U CubeSat and will be Kuwait’s first Satellite. Our goal is to make space accessible to all, and as a startup, we are excited to work with other startups to meet our mutual objectives. 


“Once in space, QMR-KWT will be the outcome of efforts from all young companies including Orbital Space, EnduroSat, D-Orbit, and even SpaceX, which is less than 20 years old company”, he added. 

“QMR-KWT’s functional testing has been completed at EnduroSat facilities and it has been integrated with ION Satellite Carrier, D-Orbit’s orbital transportation vehicle, as part of the plan to put it in orbit,” Al-Feeli noted. The Falcon 9 mission dubbed Transporter-2 rideshare mission will carry several dozens of satellites from the surface of the earth to outer space at around 500 km above sea level in a sun synchronous orbit.

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