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13 June 2019, 12:39

Belarus' achievements in space industry presented in Vienna

MINSK, 13 June (BelTA) – Belarus is taking part in the 62nd session of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS). The session is taking place in Vienna, Austria on 12-21 June, the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) told BelTA.

The Belarusian delegation is led by Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sergei Kilin. On 12 June he made a report on Belarus' efforts in researching and using outer space for peaceful purposes and development prospects. According to Sergei Kilin, Belarus makes core components for remote Earth sensing satellites with the spatial resolution of under 1m as well as electronic components for space equipment. Cutting-edge technologies for data processing are developed. New products and materials for space applications are manufactured, including artificial soils to grow crops in null-gravity conditions and in microgravity conditions.

The Belarusian satellite for the remote sensing of Earth with the spatial resolution of 2m was inserted into orbit on 22 July 2012 and has been working fine since then. In 2018 the satellite's service life was extended till 2021. The data the satellite provides is used by 11 Belarusian government agencies. The Belarusian communications satellite Belintersat-1 works well. It covers Europe, Africa, and Asia. A Belarusian national system for satellite communications and broadcasting has been commissioned thanks to the telecommunications satellite. Apart from that, in 2018 a Belarusian educational nanosatellite was commissioned. It is used to train aerospace industry specialists.

Sergei Kilin noted: “The 31st international congress of the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), which took place in Belarus in September 2018, gave a new impulse to the development of space activities in our country. The participation of Belarus' representative in the international scientific project SIRIUS, which aims to make preparations for lengthy manned space flights, is one of the results achieved in the wake of the congress. The project is being carried out by NASA and the Institute for Bio-Medical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences.”

A national space program for the period of 2016-2020 is being implemented in Belarus. Plans have been made to develop a new program for the 2021-2026 period. The promising areas of work also include the enhancement of the Belarusian space system for the remote sensing of Earth by means of creating a Russian-Belarusian space system, the creation and deployment of a multilayer system for the remote sensing of Earth, which will include a space component, an unmanned aerial component, and a ground component. Sergei Kilin mentioned the need to find applications for results of the space effort for the sake of Belarus' social and economic development, including precision farming, digitization of the national economy, and Antarctic exploration. There are also good prospects for the development of the national system for the satellite communications and broadcasting, navigation, geodesic, and mapmaking activities, an aerospace education system. The development of new materials to create spacecraft for near space and deep space exploration, the participation in international projects to study the Moon and Mars are of special interest.

Belarus became a member of the UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) in 2014.

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