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MBRSC, the UAE's national space agency center, delivered KhalifaSat and the Emirates Mars Mission's Hope Probe and is now preparing the Emirates Lunar Mission.
ACTIVEMBRSC is a Dubai Government space centre, founded in 2006 as EIAST, that built KhalifaSat and the Emirates Mars Mission's Hope Probe and runs the Emirates Lunar Mission, including the Rashid Rover 2.
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) is the UAE's premier space organization, responsible for the country's most ambitious space missions. MBRSC developed and operates KhalifaSat, a high-resolution Earth observation satellite designed and built entirely in the UAE. The centre led the Emirates Mars Mission, successfully placing the Hope Probe into Mars orbit in 2021 to study the Martian atmosphere. MBRSC is also developing the Emirates Lunar Mission (Rashid rover) and training UAE astronauts. The centre is a cornerstone of the UAE's strategy to develop a knowledge-based economy and inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers.
Not scored The Space Score is a 0 to 1000 snapshot of a space company's size and activity, relative to the other companies we track. It combines size (headcount, market value and revenue, 30%), U.S. federal space contracts (20%), equity raised (15%), momentum (15%) and, for launch companies, orbital launches (20%), so it leans heavily on size. It is descriptive: not a forecast, a rating or investment advice.
Government agency, not a company.
Inputs measured 2026-10-13 (UTC) · methodology v6 · Who is scored, and why
Sources: Founded, Headquarters, CEO, Legal name
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Emirates Mars Mission orbiter studying the Martian atmosphere, weather dynamics, and hydrogen/oxygen escape; first Arab interplanetary mission.
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APA
SpaceNexus. (2026, October 13). MBRSC: Company dossier [Data set]. Retrieved October 13, 2026, from https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/mbrsc
Chicago
SpaceNexus. "MBRSC: Company dossier." Data as of October 13, 2026. Accessed October 13, 2026. https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/mbrsc.
BibTeX
@misc{spacenexus_mbrsc_2026,
author = {{SpaceNexus}},
title = {{MBRSC}: Company dossier},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/mbrsc}},
url = {https://spacenexus.us/company-profiles/mbrsc},
urldate = {2026-10-13},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-13; each fact links its primary source}
}