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Egypt – Chinese Collaborations in Space

CAIRO, 19 March 2020, TON: The Egyptian government has approved collaboration between space agencies of Egypt and China. Egyptian space agency would Chinese institution for using its satellite launching stations.

The Egypt's official news agency MENA  reported that Egyptian Space Agency has been authorized to sign a contact with the China Great Wall Industry Corporation to use its stations to launch Egyptian satellites.

Egypt and China signed an agreement in September 2019, to commence the construction of satellite assembly, integrating and testing facilities in Egypt with the development of the China-funded Egyptian satellite MisrSat-II.

Egypt launched TIBA-1, a state-owned civil communication satellite in November 2019. 

Beijing and Cairo signed a USD 72 million grant for Egypt's space programme for EgyptSat-2 Earth observation satellite programme on 21 January 2019, In this year more meetings between the two space agencies are taking place and in the coming months important breakthroughs are expected. .

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