ArmInfo. Armenia has started work on the construction of its first satellite. Deputy Minister of High-Tech Industry of Armenia Avet Poghosyan announced this during a press conference on October 18.
"The accumulated potential and achievements allow us to say that we will very quickly move on to organizing design work for the construction of the 2nd state satellite," he said.
The deputy head of the department stressed that this satellite will significantly differ from the one launched this spring (on May 25 of this year, the first Armenian satellite was launched into low Earth orbit within the framework of cooperation between the Armenian state enterprise of "Geocosmos" and the Spanish "Satlantis" company, ed. note). The differences will be not only technical, but also in the fact that the design works and a significant part of the integration will be carried out in Armenia. "In other words, it will be the first satellite of Armenian production," said Poghosyan, stressing that work in this direction has already begun.
In a conversation with an ArmInfo correspondent, he specified that the satellite produced in Armenia will make it possible to obtain better quality images due to the higher exposure meter and will have longer-term usability. At the same time, he stressed that all programs in the space sphere of Armenia, including the use of data received from the satellite, are purely for peaceful purposes. This also applies to border monitoring for security reasons.
