King Salman announces plans to set up Saudi Space Agency

Saudi Arabia has announced plans to set up its own space agency, with King Salman’s son named as its chairman.

As a feature of a progression of regal pronouncements to reshape the administration, King Salman reported Prince Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud as chairman of the board of directors of the Saudi Space Agency at the position of minister.

Prince Salman was the principal Arab and Muslim to go into space in 1985, sending a satellite for the Arab Satellite Communications Organization with NASA. 

The declaration comes only weeks after two Saudi-planned satellites were propelled into space from China. 

The satellites, which were created by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, will be utilized to give high-goals pictures of the planet's surface from low earth circles, help with urban arranging, screen developments and changes on the world's surface, and furnish government offices with administrations, specifically, high-goals pictures. 

Known as Sat 5a and Saudi Sat 5b, the satellites were propelled from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center. 

The dispatch of the two new satellites comes as a major aspect of the Kingdom Vision 2030 intending to confine key innovations, amplify neighborhood content and enable the Saudi adolescents gain information of cutting edge innovations in the improvement and produce of satellites.