United Nations/Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre Cooperation Programme on Payload Hosting Initiative "PHI"
News
- PHI 2nd round Announcement of Opportunity webinar was held on 1 November 2023, watch here.
- Payload Hosting Initiative 2nd round is open for applications! Submit your application by 31 March 2023, start here.
- Press release: UNOOSA and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre announce new opportunity under Access to Space for All umbrella.
- Read the Access to Space for All initiative for Sustainability: Interview Series Article #5 "PHI: The Platform to Realize Your Dreams"
- UNOOSA and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre announce awardees of payload programme, read the press release here.
Rounds
The United Nations/Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) Cooperation programme on Payload Hosting Initiative "PHI", is a joint programme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in collaboration with MBRSC. The programme started in 2022. Through this opportunity, UNOOSA and MBRSC undertake to provide the opportunity of hosting a payload on the PHI mission and to select the hosted payloads. MBRSC will provide a 12U spacecraft platform, launch and ground station for the PHI mission, and the selected entities will provide tested payloads.
read moreAwardees
The first round awardees of PHI announced in September 2022 during the 73rd International Astronautical Congress. National Space Science Agency of the Kingdom of Bahrain and Antarikchya Pratisthan Nepal were selected as awardees of the first round. Congratulations to both team!
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This opportunity is in collaboration with the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC), a research institute in the United Arab Emirates and home to the UAE National Space Programme. MBRSC builds and operates earth observation satellites, offering imaging and data analysis services to clients around the world. It has launched the DubaiSat-1, DubaiSat-2 and the KhalifaSat, which was developed 100% in the UAE by a team of highly qualified Emirati engineers. The Centre also launched the Emirates Mars Mission "Hope Probe", which became the first Arab interplanetary mission to reach the Martian orbit on 9 February 2021.
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