{"id":84947,"date":"2011-04-25T23:09:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/narss-puts-egyptsat-2-launch-on-indefinite-hiatus\/"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:09:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:09:23","slug":"narss-puts-egyptsat-2-launch-on-indefinite-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/narss-puts-egyptsat-2-launch-on-indefinite-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"NARSS Puts EgyptSat-2 Launch on Indefinite Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[04-25-11] <strong>Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences <\/strong>(NARSS) Director Ayman Ad-Dosouqi has indefinitely postponed the scheduled 2013 launch of the MisrSat-2\/EgyptSat-2 research satellite, according to a statement issued April 22 to the <em>Qatar News Agency<\/em>. <br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NARSS did not give a specific reason for the postponement and Ad-Dosouqi did not set a new launch date. In the statement, Ad-Dosouqi said 60 percent of EgyptSat-2\u2019s hardware would &#8220;mainly depend on purely Egyptian designs and programs produced by the specialized industrialization organs across Egypt. The new satellite will be designed according to the state-of-the-art and advanced space technology potentials and would be equipped with highly advanced microscopic and photographing technologies coping with the development requirements in touristic [sic], population, agricultural and industrial fields.&#8221;<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The satellite\u2019s operator, Egyptsat, has remained relatively quiet in the market over the past year. In October, the operator announced it had lost control of EgyptSat-1 after losing contact with the spacecraft three months earlier. The satellite was launched from Kazakhstan\u2019s Bakinour launch facility in April 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-25-11] Egyptian National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (NARSS) Director Ayman Ad-Dosouqi has indefinitely postponed the scheduled 2013 launch of the MisrSat-2\/EgyptSat-2 research satellite, according to a statement issued April 22 to the Qatar News Agency. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NARSS did not give a specific reason for the postponement and Ad-Dosouqi did not set a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}