Now in an orbit is joint group from several Russian and Belarusian satellites of remote sensing of Earth. In the long term two countries need to expand considerably it, the Deputy State secretary of the Union State Kubrin Aleksey considers and explains why:
- the Satellite can remove a certain ground once in 36 hours. Present: on Earth fire, hurricane, tsunami. While the satellite will return on this site, accident can destroy everything that is possible. To make work in an orbit of the most useful, it is necessary to react in real time. For this purpose it is necessary to have group not less than from 24 satellites.
Certainly, it will demand solid financial investments, and they are justified if cooperation in space exploration goes on a mutually advantageous basis. Kubrin Aleksey is convinced that here at Belarus and Russian Federation the uniform purpose:
- Between two countries there are no secrets. Alone it is heavy to any state to lift the space program therefore it is necessary to unite. Russian Federation and Belarus work only so that the partnership was mutually advantageous that well influences cooperation of two countries.
the Facts eloquently it confirm. Today the Belarusian technologies are widely used on the Russian spacecrafts. It is enough to remember optical-electronic system of remote sensing of Earth, working at the Russian Kanopus-V spacecraft. There are also serious practices on micromotors for correction of an orbit of space satellites. The Russian experts also do not hide from the Belarusian colleagues new technologies.
Alone to any state it is heavy tothe Second sensation just from this area. She allows to make spacecrafts of remote sensing of Earth even more "sharp-sighted". Speaking to exact language of science, it is a question of the basic panel the active phased antenna of a lattice of the experimental onboard radar with synthesized apretury H-range.
That is behind the sophisticated formulation? About all advantages of the device the correspondent of "UNION" was told by the director of the Scientific and design center of perspective radio-electronic systems of the Belarusian state university of informatics and radio electronics where the novelty, Nicholas Naumovich is created:
- Such radar, being in an orbit, radiates towards Earth a radio wave which is reflected back in space and it is caught by the satellite antenna. After the corresponding processing of a signal it is possible to receive the picture of this or that site of a surface. Thus unlike present optical-electronic systems the radar is capable "to see" through clouds, a smoke and at night. For Belarus it is very important as about three quarters of time its territory is hidden by overcast. The second advantage - our radar is capable to find out subjects from one meter in size, and in the long term smaller that at least it is twice less, than present optical satellites. And this with the fact that the device flies at the height about 520 kilometers. It is capable to work in various modes. In scanning it is possible to observe Earth up to 100 kilometers wide strip, in the detailed aims at object which needs to be considered in more detail. If to start in couple two such devices, it is possible to receive the volume image of terrestrial objects.
Similar development on the former Soviet Union the Belarusian scientists is executed byfor the first time. (It especially is important that Russian Federation in the West was refused acquisition of similar technologies. ) Work began four years ago, having received financing according to the allied scientific and technical Monitoring-SG program. The key technical parameters stated by the Russian partners in remote sensing of Earth from space are thus considered. So, probably, over time in the Belarusian-Russian orbital group there will be also an all-weather allied spacecraft.
