Today the State Space Agency hosted a meeting of the scientific and technical meeting on “The state of modern developments in domestic space technology”, which brought together representatives of leading enterprises in the space industry of Ukraine. Also, representatives of NTUU “KPI named after Igor Sikorsky », the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as representatives of« Ukroboronprom ».
The participants of the meeting presented their modern developments in rocket and space technology in the field of creation of spacecraft for scientific purposes and space systems for remote sensing of the Earth. They were acquainted with the state of readiness of the technical means of the National Center for Control and Testing of Spacecraft to ensure the management of spacecraft, reception, processing and dissemination of space information. They discussed promising areas of development of domestic space systems for remote sensing of the Earth, as well as further coordination of efforts of domestic enterprises and institutions to ensure the creation of globally competitive models of domestic space technology.
“In the formation of the space program, as never before, it is important to unite the forces of all players in the industry in Ukraine, who in parallel have developed new areas of space activities over the past 5 years,” said in his speech. Chairman of the DCA Mikhail Lev.
The first common task adopted at the meeting was to develop a concept of a satellite group (at least 3 satellites), based on the available technical and intellectual potential, which can be presented to the government in the near future.
In addition, representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science and Ukroboronprom supported the idea of cooperation and signing an agreement between the parties for more effective results.
Ahead are regular technical meetings, exchange of experience and a single space concept that will be able to meet the needs of Ukraine’s national security in the first place.
