The station will have two telescopes, the first 120 cm in diameter and the second 70 cm in diameter.
Rasha Ghoneim, the head of the Space Research Laboratory at the Egyptian National Research Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics (NRIAG), announced plans to establish the second-largest monitoring station for satellites and space debris globally after China in Egypt.
This facility will utilise laser beams to track satellites and space debris in outer space. The construction process has commenced to install the stations dome, which will house two telescopes. Egypt will receive the first telescope with a diameter of 120 cm from China dedicated to tracking space debris within a month and a half. The second telescope, with a 70 cm, dedicated to monitoring space debris and satellites, is expected to be dispatched in August.
The trial operation phase will take place after receiving the first telescope, she added, with the trial operation phase to start within two months from now.
A Chinese delegation of experts will train Egyptian engineers and technicians to operate the station, in the trial operation phase, Ghoneim added, stressing that the larger telescope will be for space debris, while the second telescope will monitor space debris and satellites.
