While this latest test doesn’t make nuclear-powered rocket engines viable just yet, it’s an important step on the journey.

On the outskirts of Cairo, a cutting-edge space lab was supposed to be the first in Africa to produce homegrown satellites.

The first satellite assembled at the factory, hailed as the first ever made by an African nation, was built mainly in China and launched from a spaceport there in December 2023. The Egyptian satellite ...