Wednesday, July 21 2021 18:18

ArmInfo.On July 21 Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan approved the composition of the working group from the Armenian side to ensure cooperation between the RA and the Russian Federation in the field of space activities,  the official website of the RA government reports.

According to the decision, the working group will have to study and  develop priority areas of development in the field of space  activities within a month, as well as submit proposals to the Russian  side on their implementation for organizing further cooperation.

The working group from the Armenian side will be led by the Ministry  of High-Tech Industry. The working group will include representatives  of the office of the Security Council of the Prime Minister's Office,  the Ministry of Defense, the National Security Service, the General  Staff of the Armed Forces, Geokosmos CJSC, the Byurakan Astrophysical  Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of  Armenia.

Back in April 2019, in the release of the Russian Space Systems (RSS)  company, it was said that the Armenian company in the field of using  the results of space activities Geokosmos (the leading operator of  space activities in Armenia, is one of the companies that signed an  agreement on the production of satellites of the EAEU) will have  access to data from Russian space satellites for Earth remote sensing  (ERS). It was reported that Yerevan is going to use access to data  from the Russian orbital group to process images for the Ministry of  Defense. Agreements were also reached on cooperation in personnel  training and exchange of experience and technical data in the  development and implementation of final geographic information  services. "Within the framework of the agreement, the parties are  modernizing the data receiving and processing station located in  Armenia. Moscow and Yerevan have thought about forming a joint body  capable of building devices for Earth remote sensing satellites, as  well as software and services for processing space imagery data," RSS  noted.