Deputy General Director for the development of the orbital grouping and Promising Projects Yuri Urlich also called on specialists to participate in the creation of laws in this area
MOSCOW, December 10. /TASS/ Roscosmos invites the international community to come to a common understanding of these ecomonitoring systems. This was stated on Friday at the International Energy Forum in Moscow by Yuri Urlich, First Deputy Director General for the development of the orbital group and Promising projects.
"We want to do this [climate monitoring system] at the international level, and together with our colleagues from Europe, the USA, China, of course, we need to verify the systems so that everyone has the same understanding in numbers," Urlichich said.
He also called on experts to participate in the creation of laws in this area.
Urlichich recalled that in June Rosatom, Gazprom and Roscosmos signed an agreement on the development of the Sphere project, which will allow measuring existing environmental problems, in particular greenhouse gases and aerosols, within the framework of geotechnical and environmental monitoring. For these purposes, the federal budget allocates annual funding in the amount of 7 billion rubles over the next three years - from 2022 to 2024.
"Plus, a number of tools are being created, thanks to which, through a concession with the government, we will be able to create objective groupings that will be able to give objective knowledge," Urlichich said.
"Sphere"
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the Sphere program on a direct line on June 7, 2018. It involves the launch of communications satellites and remote sensing of the Earth. In December 2020, a source told TASS that the work for 2021 has already been determined. In the autumn of this year, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin noted that the Sphere program will include five satellite groupings providing telecom services, and five more - surveillance.
In November, it was reported that Roscosmos selected performers of work on key technologies for the creation of small spacecraft under the Sphere program.
