This year has a promising start for the State of Kuwait, especially in the aftermath of an achievement that will help to place it in the foreground of international efforts in the field of space. On Tuesday, January 3rd, Kuwait launched its first artificial satellite “KuwaitSat1" from the Cape Canaveral air base, Florida, the United States, through the “Falcon9" space shuttle of Space-X, to be the first satellite of its kind to be launched in this way. As it has been the case for any other achievement, KOC has its own trace upon this one, too. The company is always either the owner of the achievement or the major contributor to its realization. In this case, we are talking about Mariam al-Khatem, senior geologist at the Exploration Assessment Team (1) of the Exploration Group, which took part in this achievement of which Kuwait has always dreamt. In this article, we will shed light on this achievement and be briefed about Mariam's participation in it, which is a source of great pride for KOC. The State of Kuwait… heading to Space!Finally, KuwaitSat made its way to space after all the preparations that have been made for it to send pictures to the ground station located at the F....
