Light 1 CubeSat the first ever Nano satellite launched by Kingdom of Bahrain The Kingdom of Bahrain today successfully launched its first satellite, “Light-1”, which will monitor and study terrestrial gamma ray flashes (TGRs) from thunderstorms and cumulus clouds, named after HM the King’s “First Light” book, Light-1 is the outcome of the ongoing cooperation between Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates in space science, technology and engineering. Light-1 took off in December 2021, at 13:00 Bahraini time, onboard a SpaceX CRS-24 flight on board of a Falcon 9 rocket, heading towards the International Space Station (ISS). It was placed on its orbit at an altitude of 400 km and an inclination angle of 51.6◦, adding that it will be re-launched into orbit around Earth during the first quarter of 2022 from the Japanese Experiment Module (KIBO) in the ISS. Light-1 is a nanosatellite that will monitor and study terrestrial gamma ray flashes by developing and building two payload detectors, usi...