The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and the Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) have formally began engaged on the student-led house undertaking, HCT-SAT 1.
The Earth-observation DiceSat undertaking is about to be launched by the top of 2024. It’s being developed by HCT college students underneath the steerage of MBRSC engineers.
HCT-Sat 1 might be a compact satellite tv for pc design of unit dimension 1U (10cm x 10cm x 10cm).
MBRSC’s engineers will information college students throughout all crucial phases of the satellite tv for pc’s lifecycle, together with design, improvement, meeting, testing and operational administration.
The partnership entails not solely the launch of the payload, but in addition an in depth instructional expertise, empowering each college students and school members with knowledgeable coaching and delivering substantial help within the immersive DiceSat curriculum.
This marks a major step ahead in integrating house expertise inside the instructional sector, aiming to advance the UAE’s place in house exploration and science.
The undertaking will see 34 female and male HCT college students throughout numerous engineering disciplines, together with aviation sciences, airframe design and electrical engineering, along with utilized media college students enterprise advertising points, work as a cohesive crew.
The college students might be supported and mentored by 9 HCT school members.
.@MBRSpaceCentre, in collaboration with @HCT_UAE, has formally commenced work on the HCT-SAT 1 undertaking, the establishment’s inaugural student-led house mission and set to be launched by the top of 2024, is being developed by HCT college students underneath the knowledgeable steerage of MBRSC… pic.twitter.com/d9ubOuww15
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