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The UAE Space Agency held high-level bilateral talks with a delegation of senior government and commercial officials from the Republic of Estonia to accelerate cooperation and transfer of space-related technologies and services.
The Director of the UAE Space Agency, Salem Butti Salem Al Kubais, met with Sille Kraam, the Deputy Secretary-General for Business and Consumer Environment at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications at the Estonia Pavilion.
During Space Week at Expo 2020 Dubai, the two officials met to explore the potential for enhanced cooperation in all space-related fields.
This includes opportunities to strengthen the links between science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and to promote new partnerships between the public and private sectors to promote economic growth and human progress.
Al Qubaisi said: “Estonia and the UAE have an important bilateral relationship. As we strengthen cooperation in all space-related fields, this relationship is taking on a new dimension. There are great opportunities to strengthen cooperation in areas such as space research, satellite production, entrepreneurship and private enterprise expansion. Our conference provides a constructive platform to establish our common bond to create a competitive innovation-driven economy in the next 50 years .”
In recent years, Estonia and the United Arab Emirates have achieved great success in the field of space. Estonia has been a full member of the European Space Agency since 2015 and has made a huge leap in the industry this year. On January 11, 2021, Estonia announced that it will provide Maxar Technologies with a stereo camera for NASA’s Artemis lunar project. These cameras will be an important part of an important new mission, which is to send humans back to the moon in 2024 and one day establish a settlement on the moon.
The UAE recently announced a new mission to explore the asteroid belt between Venus and Venus and Mars. The 3.6 billion-kilometer deep-space journey planned to be launched in 2028 will test the UAE’s scientific and technological capabilities more than ever, and is one of the country’s new top 50 projects-a series of economic and development initiatives social and economic Transformation.
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