Egypt gets ground satellite station

Egyptian Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Mufid Shehab said that National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Science (NARSSS) has recently acquired a state-of-the-art ground station for receiving satellite data transmission. Thus, Egypt became the second African country to possess such stations that would serve development projects in Egypt.

"This station, which is being installed in Aswan is the most sophisticated worldwide. It will receive digital data transmitted by US, European, French and Canadian satellites," stressed head of NARSSS Adel Yahya.

He added that these satellites are specialized in remote sensing and monitoring ground and environmental resource to obtain data once recorded by those satellites while they are moving over Egyptian lands. Accordingly, all state bodies will get whatever satellite dada they need.