UAE, Bahrain Space Agencies get a Royal visit
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His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain visited the joint pavilion of UAE Space Agency and Bahraini National Space Science Agency at the Bahrain International Airshow.
During the visit, His Majesty was briefed on latest achievements of the UAE Space Agency, along with its current and future projects, especially UAE Mars Probe. There was also a briefing on projects, programmes, and executive plans carried out by the Bahraini National Space Science Agency, which focuses on motivating scientific innovation and technical advancement that would help achieve the agency’s objectives.
His Majesty also reviewed the collaboration between the two agencies, which was culminated by signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covering scope and framework of cooperation in field of space exploration and peaceful exploitation.
The MoU was signed by HE Dr Khalifa Al Romaithi, chairman of the UAE Space Agency and Dr Mohammed Ahmed Al Amer, chairman of the Bahraini National Space Science Agency.
The MoU covers the exchange of information between the space sectors in the two countries, in the fields of space science, technology and applications, as well as in policies and regulations. Moreover, the MoU covers joint efforts in conferences, seminars and educational activities in space science and technology and collaboration between various academic and research institutions in the two countries.
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