UAE: The Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST) has announced the successful launch of Dubai Sat-2.
Dubai Sat-2 was launched into outer space from the Yasny Launch Base in Russia, using the Russian Dnepr rocket launcher in cooperation with the Russian International Space Company (Kozmotras). The satellite is equipped to provide space imagery of the Earth throughout its lifetime and can take multiple images of the same area in one day, as well as receive and process these images from anywhere in the world within one day.
Source: Gulf today