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Dubai's first environment nanosatellite DMSat-1 lifts off

Tuesday 23 March 2021 | 11:29 CET | News
Dubai's first miniature environment-monitoring satellite, DMSat-1, has successfully blasted off to space, Khaleej Times reported. A Soyuz 2.1a rocket launcher sent it up on 22 March at 10:07 hrs UAE time, from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The launch of the nanemetric satellite had previously been postponed twice, on 20 and 21 March.

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