The "Tamayuz Academy of India" has organized a special forum to celebrate the UAE Golden Jubilee. Dr. Sabir Nawas Mohamed, the Director of the Tamayuz Academy, expressed his warm greetings to the UAE people and leadership at the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the United Arab Emirates. Great trading ties exist between the UAE and India that go back centuries. The Indian Academy has invited several professionals from the UAE to highlight the UAE's achievements in arts, education, and space exploration. Prof. Ilias Fernini, the Deputy General Director for Research at the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST), showcased SAASST's contribution to the UAE space program. SAASST, with its different units (academic, planetarium, and research laboratories), is playing a vital in promoting the UAE space exploration vision.

Sunday, 28 November 2021 02:51

SAASST Celebration of UAE National Day 2021

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) staff celebrated on Nov. 24-25, 2021, the UAE National Day. It was a very emotional moment for everyone to be part of these festivities. The whole world is witnessing that the United Arab Emirates is now a space power. With the Mars Hope Mission, the future Rashad lunar rover of 2024, the Venus and asteroids space mission of 2028, the UAE is a member of the space

Sunday, 28 November 2021 02:48

SAASST STK Workshop

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) organized an STK workshop on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021, as part of its CubeSat Laboratory activities for the academic year 2021/2022. The onsite workshop was given by Mr. Diogo Rodriguez, the AGI MENA Director. Mr. Diogo was assisted by Mrs. Tarifa Al-Kaabi and Mr. Yusuf Faroukh, both research engineers at the laboratory.

Dr. Mubasshir Shaikh, a research scientist at the SAASST Space Weather and Ionospheric Laboratory, gave a lecture on "Plasma Physics: Frozen in Magnetic Field" on Nov. 24, 2021. The online lecture was attended by more than 70 students and SAASSt research assistants. Physicists refer to plasma as one of the four fundamental states of matter after gas, liquid, and solid. It consists of a gas of ions – atoms or molecules which have at least one

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology organized on Monday, Nov. 22, 2021, a workshop on "Achieving Science with CubeSats." Several SAASST research assistants participated in different presentations to cover the subject as per the program below:

HE Prof. Hamid Al-Naimiy, the Chancellor of the University of Sharjah, and the General Director of the Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology, has signed an agreement with Visual attractions to upgrade the digital planetarium system and other auxiliaries related elements. This upgrade is much needed to keep the SAASST planetarium updated as new display technologies emerge in crystal clear displays with high resolution.  The CEO/Technical Director of Visuals Attraction Electronics LLC, Mr. Wisam Al Mufti, signed the agreement. Mr. Martin Kraus, the CEO of Carl Zeiss Planetarium Division, and Mr. Ian Dyer, the International Commercial Manager of Visuals Attractions LLC, also attended the ceremony.

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology has completely renovated the Decametric Radio Telescope (DRT) that works at 20.1 MHz. Mr. Mohamed Rihan, the coordinator of the DRT, along with his team Mr. Issam Abujami (IT Director), Mr. Anas Omar Adwan (Maintenance Engineer), Mr. Abdallah  Atoui  (Research Assistant), and Mr.  Ismail Abbas Zein (Research Assistant) have spent the whole of Nov. 14-18, 2021 working on the much-

Thursday, 11 November 2021 17:42

Space Weather Workshop Dr. Mubasshir Shaikh

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) organized a special workshop on "GNSS Data Processing for Space Weather Applications" on Nov. 11, 2021. The lecture was given by Dr. Mubasshir Shaikh and Mr. Abdollah Masoud. Both researchers are part of the SAASST Space Weather and Ionospheric Laboratory (SW&IL). Global navigation satellite system (GNSS) describes any satellite constellation that provides positioning,

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) organized a lecture on "Artificial Intelligence in Astronomy" on Nov. 10, 2021. The lecture was given by Dr. Antonios Manousakis, an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics and Astronomy and a research scientist at SAASST. We live in an era of big data in astronomy. We are moving from gigabyte (1,073,741,824 bytes) to terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) and

The Sharjah Academy for Astronomy, Space Sciences, and Technology (SAASST) organized a seminar entitled the "Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) Data" on Nov. 09, 2021, in collaboration with the UAE Space Agency. Ms. Hoor Al-Mazmi from the UAE Space agency and Dr. Francois Forget, a French astrophysicist, a research director at the CNRS, and a French Academy of Sciences member, conducted the seminar.