A handover ceremony was held at the Satellite Assembly, Integration and Test Center in New Cairo city in the Eastern Area of Cairo in Egypt for two models of a remote-sensing satellite jointly developed by Chinese and Egyptian scientists on Sunday.

The MisrSat-2 is a benchmark project for space cooperation between China and Egypt under the Belt and Road Initiative. The mechanical and thermal models and the electrical model have undergone multiple tests and environmental experiments after assembly.

This is China's first international space cooperation project using overseas facilities for the entire satellite assembly, integration, and environmental testing and delivering satellite models from abroad.