Union State Monitoring SG program gets Br60bn in 2014

An estimated Br50.8 billion was allocated for the implementation of the Union State space program Monitoring SG in 2014, Executive Director of the program Sergei Korenyako told BelTA.

“A total of Br50.8 billion has been allocated for this year. We will find the use to this sum,” Sergei Korenyako said. In his words, the Union State space program Monitoring SG was approved in October 2013. Its first stage is currently underway.

“Program and simulator complexes are developed to secure the reliability of spacecraft. Scientists are working on new promising materials and an element base for the use in satellite vehicles in outer space, looking into the issues related to the testing of spacecraft, developing new information technologies,” Sergei Korenyako said.

In his words, the Union State space program Monitoring SG is focused first of all on securing the reliability of space vehicles. “We should solve the issue in a class, secure viability and durability of spacecraft in order to reduce the number of accidents that took place in the recent years,” the specialist underlined.

The United Institute of Informatics Problems under the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is hosting the 6th Belarusian Space Congress. Partaking in the event are leading specialists in the space industry and space pilots who were born in Belarus: Piotr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok and Oleg Novitsky. The participants of the meeting will hear more than 150 reports from scientists representing Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and other countries