[FPSPACE] Egypt launches first reconnaisance satellite

[Chris Jones]

On 1/17/07, pjp <pjp961 at svol.net> wrote:
>
> http://www.menewsline.com/stories/2007/january/01_17_4.html
> [...]
> This would be the first of two satellite launches planned by Egypt in
> 2007.
> By the end of the year, Egypt plans to launch DesertSat, manufactured in
> Italy. DesertSat would be launched along with 12 mini-satellites from
> Saudi
> Arabia.
> [...]
> This brings up the question.is there a launch pad platform in Saudi
> Arabia?
> Does anyone have more details?


 The way I read it, the mini-satellites are from Saudi Arabia, not that the
launch
will be from Saudi Arabia.  The launch will probably be (just guessing) from
Kazakstan.