National Academy of Sciences of Belarus

26.08.2015

VNIIEM Corporation and NAS of Belarus sign Agreement for creating Earth remote sensing craft

VNIIEM Corporation and NAS of Belarus sign Agreement for creating Earth remote sensing craftVNIIEM Corporation and NAS of Belarus have signed an Agreement for development and further operation of a high resolution Earth remote sensing craft called BKA-2.
The document was signed by Director General, VNIIEM Corporation Leonid Makridenko and Head of NASB Directorate Pyotr Vityaz.
Earlier Russia and Belarus had established a joint Russian and Belarusian infrastructure for controlling Belarusian (BKA) and Russian (KANOPUS-V) spacecraft as well as a system for receiving and processing the data sent by them.