EgyptSat A [RKK Energiya]
Official name EGYPTSAT A
Alternative name MisrSat A
Cospar ID 2019-008A
Norad ID 44047
Launch date 2019-02-21
Launch site TTMTR
Launch vehicle Soyuz-2-1b Fregat
Country/Organization Egypt
Type application Earth Observation
Operator National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences
RCS size LARGE
Decay date ON ORBIT
Period (min) 97.8
Inclination (deg) 98.01
Perigee (km) 652
Apogee (km) 654
Eccentricity 0.00153139356814701
Mean motion (revs. per day) 14.7239263803681
Semi-Major axis (km) 7031.135
Raan (deg) 188.7366
Arg of perigee (deg) 106.3149
Shape Box + 4 Pan + 1 Ant
Mass (kg) 1050
Height (m) 0.5
Width (m) 0.5
Depth (m) 0.5
Span (m^2) 2
Lifetime 11 years
Contractors RKK Energiya (prime); OAO Peleng, NIRUP Geoinformatsionnye Sistemy (payload)
Propulsion SPT-70 Xe plasma thrusters
Configuration 559GK bus
Power 3 deployable fixed solar arrays, batteries

EgyptSat A (MisrSat A) is Egypt's third Earth remote-sounding satellite. The satellite is jointly built by Egypt's National Authority for Remote Sensing and Space Sciences together with RKK Energiya in Russia. The imaging payload was developed by OAO Peleng and NIRUP Geoinformatsionnye Sistemy in Belarus.

The satellite is an improved version of EgyptSat 2 and is also based on RKK Energiya's 559GK bus, which inherits technologies from their USP platform. The satellite features SPD-70 electric engines using Xenon. It features an improved opto-electronic system and onboard control system, high-speed on-board radio link and solar cells with increased efficiency.

The satellite was planned to be launched in November 2018, but was delayed to February 2019.

During the launch, stage 3 of the Soyuz-2-1b Fregat launch vehicle shut of too early due to an incorrect load of oxidizer, but apparently the Fregat-M upper stage was able to compensate the performance shortfall.

Satellite COSPAR Date LS Launch Vehicle Remarks
EGYPTSAT A 2019-008A 2019-02-21 TTMTR Soyuz-2-1b Fregat