Bahrain Space Agency
(formerly National Space Science Agency), Bahrain
Group photo of the Bahrain Space Agency
"We are delighted and honoured to have been selected by MBRSC on its first PHI mission through the "Aman" project. This opportunity is unprecedented in our quest to contribute meaningfully to the global effort towards the sustainable, peaceful use of outer space and building national capacity in spacecraft subsystems engineering, design, and construction".
- Dr. Mohamed Ebrahim Al Aseeri, Chief Executive,
National Space Science Agency
AWARDS
PHI
"Aman" Payload will provide a secure connection between the satellite and the ground station. It used a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with low complexity and power consumption optimization to encrypt and decrypt images and data received from the IoT sensors and the ground station. "Aman" can secure the uplink and downlink. The FPGA-based Payload will be a technology demonstration payload aiming to test the optimized reconfigurable cyber-security architecture to aid the data encryption for satellite systems and IoT devices that lack security and requires protection for private and sensitive information from being breached and cyber attacked.
News
- Two Universitiy of Bahrain graduates working at NSSA winning two global competitions-Alwatan newspaper (Arabic) (29 Sep 2022)
- HRH the Crown Prince and Prime Minister congratulated by the Minister of MOTT and Chairman of the NSSA (28 Sep 2022)
- His Majesty the King of Bahrain congratulated by the Minister of MTT and Chairman of the NSSA (28 Sep 2022)
- Two University of Bahrain graduates working at NSSA winning two global competitions (27 Sep 2022)
- The Space Science Agency wins the global competition of the UNOOSA and MBRSC on Payload Hosting (Arabic) (25 Sep 2022)
- NSSA wins the global competition of UNOOSA and MBRSC to host payloads (PHI) (25 Sep 2022)
- MBRSC and the UNOOSA have announced the participation of Bahrain's National Space Science Agency (NSSA) and Nepal's Antarikchya Pratisthan in the PHI-1 mission (22 Sep 2022)
- UNOOSA and MBRSC to carry innovations from Bahrain and Nepal to space on the PHI-1 satellite (22 Sep 2022)
- UNOOSA and MBRSC to carry innovations from Bahrain and Nepal to space on the PHI-1 satellite (22 Sep 2022)
- Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre, UN Office for Outer Space Affairs announce awardees of payload programme (22 Sep 2022)
- Space Diplomacy: UNOOSA and Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre announce payload program awardees (21 Sep 2022)
- UNOOSA and MBRSC announce winners for Hosted Payload under the "PHI" (21 Sep 2022)
Activities
- Presented in UNOOSA Access to Space for All Expert Meeting ( pdf & video 39:14-50:34 ) (16 May 2023)
- Access to Space for All initiative for Sustainability: Interview Series Article #5 "PHI: The Platform to Realize Your Dreams" (29 March 2023)
- Poster for NSSA Aman Payload at the UN/IAF Workshop 2022 (17 Sep 2022)
- Presentation for NSSA Aman Payload at the UN/IAF Workshop 2022 (17 Sep 2022)
Publications
- Citation