The mission is to be developed in partnership with the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado, Boulder. LASP was the primary knowledge transfer partner for EMM, bringing over seventy years’ experience in spacecraft and instrumentation design and development and helping advise, train and develop the team of Emirati engineers, software developers and scientists who worked on EMM, many of whom will go on to work on this new mission.
Five initiatives are being launched around the new mission by the UAE Space Agency to accelerate the development of the UAE’s space sector:
- A fully funded program to establish Emirati space sector businesses.
- Priority access to contracts and procurement for the mission by Emirati companies.
- A vocational training program to train young Emiratis on component assembly and space subsystems engineering.
- A program to bring local and international universities and research centres together to work on the mission, including LASP and Emirates University.
