King Mohammed receives staff that supervised launching of Moroccan satellite
Morocco, Local, 1/12/2002

Morocco's King Mohammed VI received on Friday the team of the royal center of space remote-sensing that supervised the assembling and launching of the first Moroccan Maroc-Tubsat satellite.

The first Moroccan satellite, successfully launched on December 10 with the assistance of the Russian rocket Zenit-2, was named "Zarkae Al Yamama" by the late King Hassan II. Later on King Mohammed VI personally followed up all the stages of the project.

The satellite will have four missions, namely earth observation, message conveyance, data collection and spotting.

The satellite was fully developed by Moroccan searchers who supervised the construction, assembling and integration of all sub-systems and the tests were conducted in partnership with the technical university of Berlin.

The satellite, launched from the Ba?konour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, evolves on a low circular orbit at a 1000 Km altitude, and makes every day fourteen rotations around the earth, including four over Morocco.

The sovereign also received the university professors who contributed to a scientific experience conducted at the Endeavor space shuttle with the US space agency "NASA" and granted them the Throne wissam with the officer order distinction.

The university professors presented the sovereign a file on the experience conducted last December 5 that consisted in sending in the space larva of some insects that harm the Maamora forest to know the effect of gravity absence on the insect biologic cycle. Findings of the experience will compared to findings of experience conducted in the science university of Rabat. The file also comprises a photo in memory of the Moroccan experience and a medal.

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