18 December 2015

6 Singapore satellites successfully launched

We had launched 6 Singapore satellites on 16 Dec 2015 20:30pm local time successfully. You can find the news here. This is a great celebration to mark an end to our Singapore Golden Jubilee 50th year birthday. And also earmark the future for our Singapore Space Industry. This is not the Singapore first satellite launch. The first Singapore satellite launched was X-Sat. It was built as a experimental and also allowed us to gain an experience in building and operating a remote sensing satellite.

Yes, I am part of the team in contributing this effort to launch our satellite to celebrate SG50 birthday. That's explain why I had not been writing much for the past 1 week plus. We are busy preparing for the launch, and now it had successfully launched. The next phase for us is to ensure the health of the satellite is maintained, then followed by carrying out it's main space mission objective. The objective of the satellite is meant for disaster monitoring, haze monitoring, maritime security and surveillance monitoring, urban planning etc. There are many applications that can be used from the satellite. This is not the typical kind of satellite that we had known such as the telecommunication satellite for live broadcasting, broadband usage and handphone reception. This satellite is meant for surveillance purposes.

I am very proud to be in the team and also in this Singapore Space Industry. It is a very niche industry but is sun-rise industry. I believe we will get more well known few years down the road and who knows next time we might be another IPO company listed in the SGX stock exchange.

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