EgyptSat-A

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EgyptSat-A, also known as MisrSat A, is Egypt’s third Earth-observation satellite, after EgyptSat 1 (2007) and EgyptSat 2 (2014). It was built by Egypt’s National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) in collaboration with Russia’s RKK Energia, with the imaging payload developed by Belarusian firms Peleng and NIRUP Geoinformationnye Sistemy.

Key facts:
- Mission type: Earth observation
- Operator: NARSS
- COSPAR ID: 2019-008A
- SATCAT number: 44047
- Planned mission duration: 11 years
- Launch date: February 21, 2019, at 16:47 UTC
- Launch site: Baikonur, on a Soyuz-2.1b with Fregat-M
- Launch contractor: Roscosmos
- Orbit: Geocentric, Sun-synchronous, approximately 668 km altitude (about 415 miles)
- Main instrument: Multispectral Imager (MSI)
- Imaging resolutions: 1 m panchromatic (Pan) and 4 m multispectral (MS)

The satellite carries an MSI camera suite for high-resolution Earth imagery and operates in a sun-synchronous orbit to regularly image the same areas.