DEWA’s Nanosatellite DEWA-SAT1 is Secure in its Low Earth Orbit

Dubai Electrical energy and Water Authority (DEWA) introduced that DEWA-SAT 1, which it launched final month, is secure in its low earth orbit at 525 kilometres. It travels at some 7.5 kilometres per second and takes about 90 minutes to orbit the Earth.

HE Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, stated that DEWA-SAT 1 is a 3U nanosatellite. It was launched as a part of DEWA’s Area-D programme to enhance its operations, upkeep, and planning of electrical energy and water networks by utilizing nanosatellites and benefiting from the applied sciences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, together with the Web of Issues (IoT), Synthetic Intelligence (AI), blockchain, and knowledge alternate via house communications, Earth statement and remote-sensing applied sciences.

“By way of the Area-D programme, we intend nanosatellite know-how to enhance the terrestrial IoT communication community to extend the effectivity and effectiveness of DEWA’s operations and help the digitisation of our electrical energy and water networks. It will enhance the effectivity and effectiveness of our planning, operations, and preventive upkeep for our manufacturing, transmission, and distribution divisions in addition to our good grids and electrical car charging stations. It additionally reduces prices, improves asset use, permits data and expertise switch, and educates Emiratis at DEWA. By the tip of 2022, we plan to launch a 6U nanosatellite with customised high-resolution picture sensing know-how to be particularly designed for DEWA to speak with its IoT terminals. The undertaking consists of purposes to gather and analyse information. multi-spectrum, high-resolution thermal imaging gadgets resembling these used on board spacecraft. They’re particularly designed to be used in electrical energy and water networks, and will probably be deployed to detect thermal fingerprints in excessive voltage transmission traces, substations, buildings and solar energy stations,” stated Al Tayer.

DEWA, in collaboration with NanoAvionics, launched DEWA-SAT 1 nanosatellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Area Launch Complicated (SLC-40) in Florida, USA. DEWA is the world’s first utility to make use of nanosatellites to enhance the operation, upkeep, and planning of electrical energy and water networks.

Supply: https://www.aetoswire.com//