President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi passed Law No. 3 of 2018 establishing the Egyptian Space Agency, after the House of Representatives approved the law.<\/p>\n
Article 1 of the Law provides for the establishment of a public economic body called the Egyptian Space Agency. The agency will have technical, financial and administrative independence.<\/p>\n
It will be headquartered in Cairo and could eventually have other branches dependent on decisions taken by its board of directors.<\/p>\n
The law also says that the agency aims to develop and transfer space science and technology into Egypt to build satellites and launch them from Egyptian territories.<\/p>\n
The agency will be directly supervised by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, according to the law.<\/p>\n
The House of Representatives\u2019 Education and Scientific Research Committee officially approved in November the establishment of an Egyptian Space Agency upon a draft law put forth by the Cabinet.<\/p>\n
The agency will be partly funded through appropriations allocated by the state, profits from the agency itself, as well as loans and grants approved by the agency\u2019s board of directors.<\/p>\n
Minister of Higher Education, Khalid Abdel-Ghaffar, explained back in November that the government\u2019s decision to establish a national space agency came as numerous Egyptians experts in the aerospace field are leaving Egypt after the government spent millions of pounds for their education.<\/p>\n
The new agency hopes to contribute to Egyptian expertise remaining in the country, he said.<\/p>\n
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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