President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi will launch Egypt's first space agency in January.
Medhat Mokthar, the head of the National Authority for Remote Sensing, announced that Sisi had agreed to establish the first Egyptian space agency, which will focus on the development of a number of projects, including space technology.
According Vetogate, Mokthar said that without the help of Ibrahim Mehleb, the previous prime minister of Egypt, the agency might have not been established at all.
"Mehleb was the first person to help with the establishment of the agency and was quick to organize a committee to oversee the agency," Mokthar told Vetogate.
"This has been a long journey and a dream come true for Egyptian researchers."
Space technology has always been a prominent field of study in Egypt. However, due to the lack of resources, researchers were limited as to what exactly they could do.
"The design, development, assembly, testing, operation, maintenance and calibration of satellite systems, follow up phases of manufacturing at home and broad, need the planning and establishment of a network station to control and determine the satellite functions, and the other for receiving data from the Egyptian satellite or other systems must all be done nationally," he explained.
"The aim of the agency establishment is the development of space industry in Egypt for peaceful purposes," he explained, adding that "the planning and the establishment of scientific and technological infrastructure will help implement a national achievement in the space industry."
The Egyptian space agency will also cooperate with other countries while enhancing Egyptian and Egypt-based companies that can help their mission.
"The agency will provide support to institutions and individuals in the fields of engineering and space technology," Mokhtar said.
"Supporting research and studies in those fields will further develop the science of space and therefore, we will be better equipped to benefit from these results and findings."
Specialized training programs that will help develop researchers, qualitatively and quantitatively, in the country and abroad will also be established and overseen by the agency.