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Tiba 1

Egyptian geostationary communications satellite

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ77849185 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tiba 1 is a communication satellite for the Egyptian government that was launched in 2019.

Mission

Tiba 1 was built in Toulouse by Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space. Both companies had been selected by the Egyptian government. The satellite was transported from Toulouse to Kourou, French Guiana, on October 16, 2019. The satellite was launched on November 26, 2019 on board an Ariane 5 rocket from Guiana Space Centre along with Inmarsat-5 F5 into a geostationary transfer orbit. Several months later, it reached its geostationary position at 35.5° East. Since then, Tiba 1 transmits both civilian and military broadcasts to Egypt.

Ariane flight VA250 marked the 250th launch of an Ariane rocket and the last flight of the Ariane 5 ECA variant. It was replaced by the Ariane 5 ECA+ version.

Technical data

The satellite uses a Eurostar 3000 satellite bus built by Airbus Defence and Space.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tiba 1” as egyptian geostationary communications satellite. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tiba, Egyptian and geostationary can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as egyptian geostationary communications satellite. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tiba 1” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.