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Detailed explanation-1: -KhalifaSat: the first Emirati satellite built from ground up. The launch of the first satellite to be developed on Emirates’ soil is heralding a new era in global space exploration. Carrying the UAE’s KhalifaSat, the H-IIA Launch Vehicle blasts off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center. This is Paid Content.

Detailed explanation-2: -KhalifaSat (Arabic: ), also known as DubaiSat-3 (Arabic: -3), is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite that was designed and built at the Space Technology Laboratories of the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai. It is considered the first entirely Emirati-made satellite.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was launched into low Earth orbit (Approximately 613 km in altitude) in October 2018, beginning a 5-year mission to capture and transmit high-quality detailed images of Earth to the MBRSC in Dubai.

Detailed explanation-4: -DubaiSat 1 (launched in 2009) DubaiSat 2 (launched in 2013)

Detailed explanation-5: -The Aryabhata spacecraft, named after the famous Indian astronomer, was India’s first satellite; it was completely designed and fabricated in India and launched by a Soviet Kosmos-3M rocket from Kapustin Yar on April 19, 1975.