The project to assemble Egypt’s new satellite, Misr Sat 2, kicked off over the weekend during the China-Arab States Expo, Mamdouh Salman, the Egyptian embassy’s trade commissioner in Beijing said. The satellite will be used to transmit satellite imagery to aid agricultural and urban planning, meteorological forecasting, and promote more effective natural disaster aid responses. Egypt and China signed earlier this year a USD 72 mn grant agreement for the assembly equipment and staff training for the project.