Gen. Kamel Al Wazir, Minister of Transportation, said that Egypt is going to launch a satellite into orbit on Friday’s evening.
The French rocket Ariane-5 ECA bears the Egypt satellite and another one from a pad installed in French Guiana situates in the northern section of South America.
The first satellite named TIBA-1 is owned by the Egyptian government meanwhile the second known as Inmarsat GX5 is run by British Inmarsat for mobile services.
The Egyptian satellite was contracted with the French side in 2016. It was built through cooperation between Airbus Defense & Space " and Thales Alenia Space ".
Airbus was commissioned to build and check the satellite according to Eurostar E3000 " type.
But Thales was responsible for designing and building a package of bi-task of communication systems in the zone known as " Ka-Band of Broadband & Secure Communications.
The Egyptian satellite serves both military and civil usages. It was designed to stay in an orbit for 15 years and it weighs 1.5 tons.
In the military field, TIBA-1 supports leading, communications and control high coded networks along with securing those networks to all units of the Armed Forces inside and outside the country especially in Africa and the Middle East.
In the civil sector, TIBA-1 provides more effective infrastructure for broadband Internet and Communications in the remote and desolate to support development projects in those areas.
It also works to narrow the gap between the rural and urban districts and upgrade activities of oil and mineral resources, energy, education, health, and other government sectors.
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TIBA-1 provides the broadband Internet to government and business purposes.
As Egypt cooperates with the African countries, the new satellite with provide the Internet services and communications to some states of the Nile basin.
The Armed Forces have worked to set direct channels via the satellite to provide capacities linking the acting systems to cover all border areas.
It is worth mentioning that TIBA-1 is the first in a chain named TIBA Sat which Egypt intends to launch in the period to come.
The satellites will create a specific move-in communications services in Egypt and Africa.
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