The United Arab Emirates Institution for Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST), a UAE government entity that was established in 2006, which recently launched its pioneering space project DubaiSat-1, in collaboration with South Korean based Satrec Initiative is building DubaiSat 1, a small Earth observation satellite.

The South Korean producer of small satellite solutions is designing and manufacturing DubaiSat-1, a remote sensing satellite which will provide the UAE with a valuable source of info to support the country's numerous development plans. The company is also hosting a team of young national engineers who are participating in the different stages of the development of the satellite.

Deimos 1 is a small Earth observation satellite, which was built by SSTL. It is part of the Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC). The satellite provides imagery for commercial applications, for government use and for rapid-response following disasters.

This satellite provided Deimos with an enhanced version of the DMC wide area imaging system. The new system images 600 km wide swaths of the Earth in three spectral bands at a ground resolution of 22 meters, rather than using the standard 32 m DMC imager. The contract also covered the provision of the ground system to allow operation of the satellite from Valladolid, Spain and it established SSTL as the launch agent for procurement of launch services.

UK-DMC 2 is one of two enhanced Disaster Monitoring Constellation (DMC) Earth observation satellites, UK DMC-2 and Deimos 1, which will be capable of imaging several thousand km along track and delivering double the data density of the 1st generation DMC satellites, increasing the ground sample distance from 32 meters to 22 meters, whilst maintaining the very wide swath of 660 km.

Nanosat 1B is a small technology satellite, which is constructed by the spanish space agency INTA (Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial). It is a follow-up project to Nanosat 01.

LatinSat, later renamed AprizeSat, is a constellation of small Low-Earth-Orbit satellites (64 satellites planned) to achieve a global communication system of data transmission and fixed and mobile asset tracking and monitoring (GMPCS). The satellites also carry experimental payloads.

AprizeSat 3 to 10 also feature an AIS (Automatic Identification System) receiver to gather position data from ships.