# Egyptian Space Agency
*agency . companies*

## Specifications
- **operator domains**: ["egsa.gov.eg"]
- **country**: Egypt
- **website**: https://egsa.gov.eg
- **founded**: 2018-01-17
- **founding legal basis**: Law No. 3 of 2018, signed by President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
- **headquarters**: Egyptian Space City, New Cairo, Egypt
- **predecessor**: National Authority for Remote Sensing & Space Sciences (NARSS), 1973-2018
- **mandate**: Oversee Egyptian space programme; satellite launches and monitoring; STEM development platform; host of African Space Agency (AfSA) HQ from 2019
- **leadership**: Prof. Dr. Sherif Sedky (Chief Executive Director, since 19 August 2022)
- **budget**: EGP 65 million (2021)
- **type**: agency
- **eo missions count**: 13
- **eo missions note**: 13 satellites administered as of August 2024 including EgyptSat-1 through NExSat-1
- **entity type**: company
- **last verified date**: 2026-06-20
- **verified by**: agency-doc
- **claim status**: unclaimed
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## Editorial
The Egyptian Space Agency is Egypt's national space agency and the current institutional home for the country's Earth-observation mission line.[^egsa-gov][^iaf-egsa] The agency was formally established in 2018 by Law No. 3 of 2018, while Egyptian space-program lineage is traced separately to a 1960 predecessor programme; those dates describe different points in the institutional chronology.[^wiki-egsa] Associated Earth-observation missions include EgyptSat-1, EgyptSat-2, EgyptSat-A and NExSat-1.[^wiki-egsa] For EO buyers, EgSA is the government agency context for Egyptian mission ownership, programme continuity and national space-sector coordination rather than a commercial sensor or data-product vendor.[^egsa-gov][^iaf-egsa]

## Sources
- [wiki-egsa] | Egyptian Space Agency - Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Space_Agency | tier=community | accessed=2026-06-20
- [egsa-gov] | EgSA Official Website | https://egsa.gov.eg | tier=agency-doc | accessed=2026-06-20
- [iaf-egsa] | IAF - EgSA Member Profile | https://www.iafastro.org/membership/all-members/egyptian-space-agency-egsa.html | tier=third-party | accessed=2026-06-20

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