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Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 27, 2015
Russia, UK Sign Space Cooperation Deal
British Surrey Satellite Technology company and Russia's VNIIEM Corporation signed a protocol on potential cooperation in the creation of a Russian small Earth remote-sensing (ERS) satellite, Russia's Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Wednesday. "The document provides for the prospects of the development and supply of equipment for airborne guidance system, which will consist of the power supply system (without solar cells), of stability, orientation and navigation systems, of onboard computational module with software, of orbital propulsion unit and of S-band SAR [synthetic aperture radar] for ERS microsatellite," the statement reads.
Russia, Germany Sign Several Space Cooperation Deals
Russia's federal Roscosmos space agency said Wednesday it had signed a number of documents on cooperation in the space industry with the German Aerospace Center (DLR)."Roscosmos and DLR have jointly developed and signed provisions on working groups, which will be created for general work on the development of space robotics and remote sensing. The composition of the working groups will be decided by the end of 2015," Roscosmos said in a statement.
The parties also signed an additional agreement, extending cooperation on the joint Kontur-2 International Space Station experiment throughout 2016. The unique experiment focuses on remotely controlling robots from space.
Russia, Iran Sign Space Cooperation Deal
On Tuesday, two Russian space companies and the Iranian Bonyan Danesh Shargh firm signed an agreement on joint development of an Earth remote-sensing satellite system for Iran.PressTV-Iran to make satellite observation system
Russia says an Iranian company plans to build a satellite observation system with the help of two Russian corporations.
The Iranian company of Bonyan Danesh Shargh has signed an agreement on building the system with the Russian companies of NPK BARL and VNIIEM, the Russian state-funded television network, RT, reported on Wednesday.
Under the agreement, signed in the presence of Dmitry Rogozin, the Russian deputy prime minister and Igor Komarov, the general director of Russia’s Federal Space Agency, the Russian corporations will help the Iranian company create a remote-sensing system which can be employed for collecting information about the Earth's surface, atmosphere and oceans.
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