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Egypt’s First Telecoms Satellite Tiba-1 Arrives at Orbit

Egypt’s newly launched satellite Tiba- designed and built the communications was manufactured in cooperation between
1 has arrived at its targeted orbit, at an payload, which will provide broadband Egypt’s National Authority for Remote
altitude of 35,786 kilometres, a specialist communications in ka band. Tiba-1 is the Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) and
at the International Telecommunication fourth satellite launched by Arianespace for Ukraine’s Yuzhnoye State Design Office.
Union (ITU) said. The telecommunications Egypt. Egypt became the first Arab country In February 2019, EgyptSat A, a remote-
satellite was launched last Tuesday to put a telecommunications satellite into sensing satellite, was launched from
from a space center in French Guiana in space with the launch of NileSat 101 in the Russian Baikonur Cosmodrome, a
South America. “The French company 1998. It was followed in 2000 by Nilesat spaceport in Kazakhstan leased to Russia.
[Arianespace] is currently working on 102, which helped distribute hundreds The satellite replaced the former satellite
adjustment to locate the satellite into its of satellite TV channels. In 2007, Egypt EgyptSat 2, which was launched in April
exact orbital slot position at 35.5 degrees launched EgyptSat 1, which became the 2014 and lost in February 2015, and is
to the East, which will take a few days first Egyptian remote-sensing satellite, and Egypt’s third remote-sensing satellite.
since this position is jammed with other
satellites,” ITU specialist Rami Ahmed
Fathy said. Launched by an Ariane 5 rocket,
Egypt’s first telecommunication satellite
was initially scheduled to launch last
November, but the launch was postponed
twice due to a malfunction followed by bad
weather conditions. Tiba-1 will cover all of
Egypt and provide telecommunication and
internet services to remote and isolated
areas. It was developed by Thales Alenia
Space and Airbus Defence and Space as
co-prime contractors. It will be owned
and operated by the government of Egypt.
Airbus Defence and Space supplied the
platform and also assembled and tested
the spacecraft. Thales Alenia Space

Brazil and China to Launch Satellite Created in Collaboration

The CBERS-4A satellite, created in Launch Base, about 500 kilometers from both countries to master the technology
collaboration between Brazil and China, will Beijing, by a Chinese rocket. According to of remote surveillance with cameras and
be launched on December 17, according to the National Institute for Space Research, sensors for Earth observation. Such an
the National Institute for Space Research. the device went through a series of initiative, which offers free satellite images
This sixth remote sensing satellite assembly, integration and testing activities to different countries in Latin America and
developed and manufactured by the two in its laboratories during the 18 months Africa, is considered the greatest spatial
countries has been tested since May at it was in Brazil. The so-called China/ cooperation project among developing
the Laboratory of the China Academy of Brazil Earth Resources Satellite program countries.
Space Technology (CAST). The satellite (CBERS) is a joint project initiated more
will be put into orbit from the Taiyuan than two decades ago that has allowed

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