RIYADH, March 23 (INP):Minister of Education Dr. Hamad bin Mohammed Al Al-Sheikh extended thanks to an appreciation of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and HRH the Crown Prince for the great support they paid for the scientific research and invention, amid the Kingdom's universities, pointing out that the launching of the first Saudi satellite by King Saudi University, dedicated for scientific purposes, today, at the Republic of Kazakhstan-based Baikonur Base, is considered as a completion of the big efforts exerted by the Kingdom, under the wise leadership to put the Kingdom into the world class standards.

According to Daily Riyadh that in a press statement to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the minister said that the CubeSat satellite is a continuation of the Saudi universities' efforts to back up the scientific field with researchers, scientists, inventors and developers, in the space domain and introduce new field for designing and programming satellites, as researchers and students at Creativity and Invention Center of the Faculty of Engineering, affiliating to King Saud University, have been working on, since 1437 AH, amid the ministry of education's interest in the strategy of promoting the national human capabilities, at all education stages, to cope with the fourth industrial revolution requirements and graduate successive generations with avidness and interest in the space, in order to realize the goals of the Kingdom Vision 2030.