NASA Administrator Charles Bolden
Saudi’s KACST signs two agreements with NASA
Zawya.com
Saudi Arabia city of King Abdulaziz for Science and Technology (KACST) signed here on Saturday two agreements in the fields of Space Geodesy and Aeronautics in addition to a Memorandum of Intent (MoI) in the fields of space and aviation with US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The signing ceremony came following the opening session of the Saudi International Conference for Space and Aviation which was held here today and co-organized by KACST and NASA….
For his part, [NASA Administrator Charles] Bolden in his speech highlighted NASA strategy and developments since 1998, including US President Obama adoption of policies which focused on boosting NASA in the scientific field in cooperation with institutes around the world.
Bolden added that NASA has partnership with untraditional partners in space science and is keen on expanding its research to cover 40,000 agreements in various regions in around 140 countries.
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Editor’s Note: Forty thousand agreements sounds like a lot. More than NASA’s legal team could probably keep track of. I’m guessing the total is probably closer to 4,000. Probably an extra zero added in by mistake.
Gulf News has a bit more about what the Saudi space effort, which involves work with NASA, Stanford University and space satellite expert Charles William Everitt. The story quotes Prince Dr. Turki Bin Saud, vice-president of KACST’s research institutes:
“Our joint experience with them will be applied to the satellites to be manufactured in Saudi Arabia. A Saudi team is currently working in the US to design and produce satellites,” he said.
Currently there are five agreements with the US, India and Russia which are approved by the Saudi Council of Ministers in addition to memorandums of understanding with the Ukraine and France, he said.
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