By Svetlana Sytina
The Ukrainian Times
The 15th scientific conference, organized by the Space Research Institute under the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the State Space Agency, took place in Odessa in late August. The event gathered more than 250 experts from five countries to bring discussions to explore the results and further directions of space research.
Despite financial difficulties, space research continues to develop in Ukraine, producing striking results both in theory and practice.
Today scientists offer new aerospace technologies designed for management in the sphere of prevention and effective elimination of the consequences of natural and technogenic disasters. For instance, the implementation of the international project IONOSAT will enable observation of the earth’s surface and detection of ionospheric signs of coming natural calamities.
In addition, the implementation of the project of orbital services is supposed to solve simultaneously dozens of problems, particularly space waste management and refueling of the spacecraft that exhausted their resources. The project, which specialists of the state design bureau YuzhMash have drawn up, is based on a space tug and special docking system.
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