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(ANSA) – CAIRO, JUNE 24 – By the top of this yr the Egyptian Area Company will launch the African Improvement Satellite tv for pc, a collaborative venture between Egypt, Kenya, Uganda and Nigeria for the event of Africa and particularly of these areas. The CEO of the Company, Sherif Sedky, mentioned this to Youm7, additionally saying a venture that includes the set up of a distant sensing digicam on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS).
The Spinx venture, funded by the Academy of Scientific Analysis, plans to launch a satellite tv for pc devoted to learning local weather change by the top of 2024. The collaborating African international locations – Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya and Egypt – are collectively designing the satellite tv for pc’s subsystems , with Egypt accountable for the design, meeting, integration, testing and launch.
In preparation for this venture, scientists and technicians from these international locations had been invited to endure coaching on the Egyptian Area Company on constructing satellite tv for pc subsystems.
Relating to the distant sensing digicam venture for the ISS, Sedky defined that it’s supported by the United Nations Workplace for Outer Area Affairs and might be carried out in collaboration with Airbus. The digicam might be designed, assembled and examined totally in Egypt earlier than being positioned on the ISS.
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