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Article: Abu Dhabi takes centre stage as spotlight falls on regional space race
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- Al Bawaba
- Article date:
- November 11, 2009
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Abu Dhabi's position as an emerging hub of the developing Arab
space industry will be highlighted when a distinguished
international line-up of experts and key decision makers gather in
the UAE capital for next month's Global Space Technology Forum.
The second edition of the event is being staged at a time when
Abu Dhabi has moved to the forefront of increased regional space
industry activity with major investment in an Earth Observation
Space Centre, a Virgin Galactic Space Port and the Yahsat
telecommunications satellite programme.
Saudi Arabia's HRH Prince Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al
Saud, the first Arab, the first Muslim and the first Royal to visit
space, will deliver the opening ...