Egypt, China cooperate in space technology industry

The National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) signed on Thursday 18/12/2014 a cooperation deal with the China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the headquarters of (NARSS) to serve sustainable development projects and space technology industry.

The agreement will bolster cooperation in satellite manufacturing, construction of ground stations, data processing and improving the infrastructure that could serve the sustainable development projects, Head of NARSS Medhat Mokhtar said in a statement.

Mokhtar hailed the Chinese potentials in the fields of remote sensing and space sciences. He asserted that Egypt is seriously going ahead with satellite and space science and is capable of developing such a technology.