{"id":96576,"date":"2024-10-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/cabinet-greenlights-national-council-to-regulate-the-space-sector\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T00:00:00","slug":"cabinet-greenlights-national-council-to-regulate-the-space-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/uae\/2024\/10\/08\/cabinet-greenlights-national-council-to-regulate-the-space-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabinet greenlights national council to regulate the space sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>National space council coming soon:<\/strong> The cabinet approved yesterday setting up a space council tasked with approving public policies and legislation, strategies, and national programs, to regulate the space sector and related activities, space news agency <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wam.ae\/en\/article\/b5kajyc-uae-cabinet-approves-establishment-supreme-space\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Wam<\/a> reports. The new council will report directly to the cabinet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The Supreme Space Council will also be responsible for defining \u201cnational priorities\u201d for the space sector <\/strong>and pinpointing technological requirements to ramp up the UAE\u2019s technological independence in space. It will manage all infrastructure, facilities, and assets in the space sector. It will also focus on regulations around space security, Wam said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The new council will be chaired by Dubai Crown Prince<\/strong> <strong>Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum<\/strong>, with the UAE Space Agency providing technical and administrative support as the General Secretariat. Members of the council will also include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Industry and Advanced Technology Minister Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber;<\/li>\n<li>Economy Minister Abdulla Bin Touq Al Marri;<\/li>\n<li>UAE Space Agency Chairperson Ahmad Belhoul Al Falasi will serve as the council\u2019s Secretary-General;<\/li>\n<li>AI, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications Minister Omar Sultan Al Olama;<\/li>\n<li>Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre VP Yousuf Hamad Al Shaibani;<\/li>\n<li>The President\u2019s Advisor for Strategic Research and Advanced Technology Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Bannai;<\/li>\n<li>The Defence Ministry\u2019s Assistant Undersecretary for Support and Defence Industries Mubarak bin Ghafan Al Jabri.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The Supreme Space Council will also set priorities for investments and acquisitions <\/strong>for both public and private space entities, bidding to develop plans for capacity building and foster partnerships at local, regional, and international levels. <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>ICYMI- The UAE has ambitious space and satellite-making plans ahead.<\/strong> Last month, defense conglomerate Edge Group <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/c7ebdc52-2664-479b-8309-aa4126b84400\/edge-group-launches-new-satellite-making,-cybertech-firm\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> a new cybertech firm named Fada. Abu Dhabi-based space and deeptech investor and International Holding Company-backed Marlan and US-based startup Loft Orbital also earlier set up a joint venture to mass manufacture satellites for the first time in the Middle East. Bayanat and Yahsat also <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/uae\/en\/news\/story\/2f33f8ad-9692-422d-8ffc-bf81c5cb7fb3\/a-chunk-of-ihc-sold-in-block-transaction-on-adx\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">plan to launch<\/a> eight synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites over the next three years, after launching the UAE\u2019s first low Earth orbit SAR satellite from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dubai Crown Prince will serve as chairman of the council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1803],"tags":[14,7,397],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-96576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-space","tag-cabinet-watch","tag-enterpriseam-uae","tag-space","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"b4c4607b-b462-43f8-add0-1f189d8f4967","order":"4","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2024\/10\/552.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Cabinet greenlights national council to regulate the space sector","related_issue":[96569],"teaser":"The Dubai Crown Prince will serve as chairman of the council","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2024\/10\/.b0c3b343-5b7b-4bcc-859f-2af91e1749a6.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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