Belarus-Russia Union State to inject RUB2.43bn into Monitoring-SG program
Mar 28, 2014
A total of RUB2.43 billion will be allocated to finance the Belarus-Russia Union State program called as Monitoring-SG, the executive director of the program, head of the United Institute of Informatics of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sergei Korenyako told media, BelTA learned.
The Union State program "Development of space and ground systems to provide Russian and Belarusian users with remote Earth sensing information" (Monitoring-SG) is designed to run in 2013-2017. It aims to create hardware-software simulation systems for laboratory and field tests of space equipment. According to Sergei Korenyako, hardware and software simulators will allow to undertake the necessary testing of space equipment in the laboratory on the ground, simulate the conditions of its exploitation in space before is it launched into orbit. "This applies to all elements, ranging from rocket engines to relevant units of spacecraft that will perform certain tasks in space," he added.
The program provides for the development of new promising equipment to obtain qualitative information from outer space for the benefit of people in Belarus, Russia and other countries. The scientist noted that a special optical-scan system is being created which may be installed on remote Earth sensing microsatellites.
The Monitoring-SG program also provides for the establishment of facilities for the training and retraining of specialists in space professions.
The Union State program "Development of space and ground systems to provide Russian and Belarusian users with remote Earth sensing information" (Monitoring-SG) is designed to run in 2013-2017. It aims to create hardware-software simulation systems for laboratory and field tests of space equipment. According to Sergei Korenyako, hardware and software simulators will allow to undertake the necessary testing of space equipment in the laboratory on the ground, simulate the conditions of its exploitation in space before is it launched into orbit. "This applies to all elements, ranging from rocket engines to relevant units of spacecraft that will perform certain tasks in space," he added.
The program provides for the development of new promising equipment to obtain qualitative information from outer space for the benefit of people in Belarus, Russia and other countries. The scientist noted that a special optical-scan system is being created which may be installed on remote Earth sensing microsatellites.
The Monitoring-SG program also provides for the establishment of facilities for the training and retraining of specialists in space professions.