Applications of Khalifasat Mission

KhalifaSat is the third United Arab Emirates Earth observation satellite and the first manufactured by the Emirati engineers in the clean room of Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), UAE. It follows the successful series of DubaiSat-1 and DubaiSat-2. KhalifaSat was launched into a sun-synchronous orbit of 613 km nominal altitude on 29
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of October 2018 from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. The MBRSC ground station, based in Dubai, controls the satellite and its functionality. The spacecraft provides very high resolution optical images which renders KhalifaSat to be utilized in various applications. The objective of this paper is to highlight the potential applications and usages of KhalifaSat imagery in a variety of domains.