The UAE's MeznSat, a national project in partnership between UAE Space Agency, American University of Ras Al Khaimah, (AURAK) and Khalifa University (KU) lifted off aboard a Soyuz-2b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. A nanosatellite, MeznSat weighs around 2.7kg, and measures 10cm x 10cm x 30cm. A team of KU postgraduate students and AURAK undergraduate students will monitor, process and analyse the data sent to the ground station ...