DubaiSat-1 completed six years and the remote sensing satellite marked the occasion by taking high quality images of Burj Khalifa and Emirates Towers areas in Dubai, UAE.

Yousuf  Hamad Al Shaibani, Director General of Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) , expressed his pride in the fact that Emirati engineers participated in 30 per cent of the building tasks at the manufacturing stage, and that they have been fully responsible for its operations ever since.

DubaiSat-1 is a remote sensing Earth observation satellite built by the Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) under an agreement with Satrec Initiative, a satellite manufacturing company in South Korea.

The earth observation satellite was designed and developed by Satrec Initiative, with participation from EIAST engineers.

DubaiSat-1 was launched on July 29, 2009 into a 680 km altitude sun-synchronous polar orbit from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, along with several other satellites on board the Dnepr launch vehicle.