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The Syrian Space Agency (
Arabic : وكالة الفضاء والطيران السورية ) is a government run organization overseen by the
Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology , Iyad Mohammed al Khatib, and dedicated to
space exploration .
History
On the 18th of March 2014, and after three years of
Syrian civil war , the government announces the creation of the Syrian Space Agency.
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On the 19th of August 2016, the
Syrian Government and the
Russian Government signed an agreement pledging cooperation in the areas of
Space Research and
Remote Sensing . It was signed by the general director of the authority for
remote sensing , Dr Osama-al Ammar, on the Syrian side, and
Igor Komarov , the head of
Roscosmos , on the Russian side.
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On the 11th of December 2018, the Syrian Minister of Communications and Technology, Iyad Khatib, said during a visit to space research facilities that "a road map for the Syrian space program, as well as for the launch of the first
artificial satellite into
Earth’s orbit " should be developed.
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See also
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