The Egyptian Space Agency, known as EgSA, is the national space authority of Egypt, founded on 17 January 2018 to succeed the National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences. Headquartered in the Egyptian Space City in New Cairo, which also hosts the African Space Agency, EgSA operates under the Egyptian government with executive decisions made at the presidential level. It manages satellite launches and monitoring and supports development of the STEM fields of Egypt. As of August 2024 it had administered 13 satellites, beginning with EgyptSat 1 in 2007 and continuing through NEXSAT-1, launched 3 February 2024.
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The EgSA headquarters are housed in the Egyptian Space City, which also houses the African Space Agency (AfSA) headquarters
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officially establishing EgSA on 17 January 2018
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Space agency
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Prof. Dr. Sherif Sedky (19 August 2022-present)
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65 million EGP (2021)
In Group: North African Space Agencies, Lead sentence
The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA; Egyptian Arabic: وكالة الفضاء المصرية, romanized: Wakālat al-Faḍāʼ al-Miṣrīyah) is an Egyptian space program founded on 17 January 2018, succeeding the National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS) as the premier space authority in Egypt.
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