Scientists of Belarus and Russia Completed Union State Programme “Cosmos-NT”

Scientists of Belarus and Russia have finished the work on the Union State programme “Cosmos-NT”, said executive director of the Union State programme “Cosmos-NT” Sergei Korenyako during the video briefing on soyuz.by.

Scientists of Belarus and Russia have finished the work on the Union State programme “Cosmos-NT”, said executive director of the Union State programme “Cosmos-NT” Sergei Korenyako during the video briefing on soyuz.by.

According to him, implementation of this programme resulted in new technologies and components, an experimental model of an all-purpose micro-satellite platform for remote sensing of the Earth in visible infrared spectrum, multi-functional optical equipment for measuring the fields of a launch vehicle at liftoff, experimental laser engine adjusting micro-satellites orbit as well as an experimental model of a data bank registering space activities.

The new programme replacing “Cosmos-NT” will be called “Monitoring-SG” and is meant for five years. Government customers of this programme are the Federal Space Agency of Russia and Belarusian National Academy of Sciences. The objective of “Monitoring-SG” is to provide a wide range of both countries’ consumers with inexpensive but high-quality space data.

According to Sergei Korenyako, the new programme has already been endorsed by 11 ministries and state run public authorities of Belarus and five ministries of Russia. “We expect that “Monitoring-SG” will be approved by the Union State Council of Ministers at the next meeting so that the implementation of the programme could begin in 2012,” he added.

For more information about the results of the programme “Cosmos-NT”, read and watch the full version of the briefing on www.soyuz.by.