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Information Satellite Systems
for space communication, TV and radio broadcasting, navigation and geodesy purposes. The company has manufactured more than 1160 satellites. Today, more than a half of our orbit constellation has been produced by this enterprise”, he noted. The Russian Government Chairman highly evaluated the results of company’s activities and called it one of the leading enterprises in industry. The Government Chairman highly evaluated the activities of Russia in the field of space development, concentrated attention on necessity of not only ensuring rapid development of leading-edge space technologies but also on searching new ways for their effective use to the benefit of the country. Vladimir Putin formulated one of the cardinal problems, which hampers the dynamic development of the space services market: “The process of application of the space activity results to economics is not made on the systematic basis, he marked. – As before, the level of accessibility of “space services” for the vast users is extremely low. In this connection the Government has greatly increased financing of some State programs, including “GLONASS” Federal Purpose-oriented Program and Federal Space Program. “In 2009 - 2011, 200 billion rubles will be assigned for the needs of the branch. This financing is from the Federal Budget only” – reported the Russian Federation Government Chairman. Anatoly Perminov, the Head of the Federal Space Agency, made a report on the implementation progress of the key space programs. He told about the current state of the space industry and about plans of space activities for the period up to 2020 and for the future prospects. In particu-
lar, he reported to the Government Chairman about prospective evolution of the orbital constellation of the social and economics, research and double-purpose application satellites. “Its numerical strength is expected to increase more than three times by 2020, in comparison with 2008”, - informed the Head of Federal Space Agency. Alexander Khloponin, the Governor of Krasnoyarsk region, gave a report to the Chairman of the Russian Federation Government on the long-term purpose-oriented program about the use of space activity results to the benefit of the regional development. In his opinion, Krasnoyarsk region is the ideal model for testing decisions in the field of practical use of the space activity results. Owing to its territorial and environmental features as well as its natural resources, our region needs such space services like global and continuous communication, monitoring, data rely, navigational, cartographical and other types of services. In fact, the Krasnoyarsk region has already become a progressive region in terms of the space technologies implementation and integration with real management processes. “We started to create the regional network system of high-accuracy navigation based on the GLONASS system, to implement remote probing of natural resources on our territory. We draw up – with 1-meter accuracy – electronic map of the Krasnoyarsk region. It will allow us to create an effective system of traffic control, nature management, management of forest and water resources”, reported the governor Khloponin. One of the major results of the field meeting is the decision on de-
Anatoly Perminov, the Head of the Federal Space Agency: In 2007 and the past period of 2008, the Russian rocket-space industry carried out significant work on realization of the tasks posed by the government of the country. Last year, seven launches took place according to the Federal Space Program. The Russian manned spacecraft and space transport vehicles were providing with continuous operation of the International Space Station. According to the GLONASS program, six satellites were injected into orbit by two launchers. During the current year, the “Express-AM33” communications satellite was launched; “Soyuz” and “Progress” launch vehicles were in use; three satellites of the GLONASS system were injected into orbit in September. Operation of a “Resource-DK1” satellite for the Earth remote sensing is successfully going on. The most important national tasks in the sphere of satellite communication, broadcasting and data transmission are carried out with the use of domestic orbital constellations. At minimum acceptable level, the needs of federal authorities in information about the Earth remote sensing are satisfied. Annual increase of product output volume is guaranteed in rocket-space industry. Growth rates twice exceed industry performances of the country on the whole.