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Belarus, Russia to spend $80m to develop space technologies together
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18.09.2012

The program of the Union State of Belarus and Russia “Development of space and ground-based systems to supply remote Earth sensing data to customers in Russia and Belarus” costs RUB2.5 billion (over $80 million). Codenamed Monitoring-SG, the program is designed to run in 2013-2017, Anatoly Komisarchuk, Deputy Head of the Minsk Representative Office of the Union State Permanent Committee, told media on 17 September.

The concept of the program was approved by the Union State Council of Ministers on 18 July 2012. The development of the program is nearing completion now. Soon it will be forwarded for consideration of the Union State Council of Ministers. The program is designed to create means, technologies, and software for the sake of increasing the reliability, performance capabilities and durability of space-born systems for the remote sensing of the Earth.

The program is required to unite efforts of relevant Belarusian and Russian enterprises, to resolve the problem of creating reliable space equipment, the problems of developing promising radar, hyperspectral, and optoelectronic equipment.

Anatoly Komisarchuk reminded that three joint space programs have been implemented in the last 13 years. Implemented in 1999-2002, the first Union State program Kosmos-BR restored and expanded scientific, technical and economic ties between Russia and Belarus in the area of practical application of space industry achievements. As part of the program the task of creating competitive space equipment and technologies through effective integration of Belarusian and Russian enterprises was accomplished.

Implemented in 2004-2007, the second program Kosmos-SG created opportunities to develop technologies to decipher space images for the sake of monitoring various objects. It allowed developing integrated geoinformation systems to register and rationally use natural resources. It allowed designing onboard special systems for new-generation microsatellites.

Implemented in 2008-2011, the space program Kosmos-NT was aimed at creating an experimental universal microsatellite platform and one microsatellite for the remote sensing of the Earth in addition to multizone digital optical equipment.

Source: BELTA