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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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