KYIV. June 30 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) Liubomyr Sabadosh during his working visit to Brussels held talks with leaders of the European Parliament (EP) and discussed the possibility of supporting promising joint projects between Ukraine and the EU countries in aerospace by European politicians.
The SSAU press service reported that Ukraine’s participation in space projects being implemented as part of the space programs of the EU and the European Space Agency (ESA) was discussed at a meeting of Sabadosh with Vice-President of the European Parliament Ryszard Czarnecki.
Sabadosh pointed out the expansion of the current agenda of the dialog between the Ukrainian space agency and the ESA and space agencies of the EU countries. He expressed hope that the European Parliament would back initiatives of the Ukrainian space sector: this would help to realize the potential of partnership between Ukraine and the EU states in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, he said.
The press service said that during his visit to Brussels, Sabadosh also met Anna Fotyga, Chair of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence of the European Parliament, Jacqueline Foster, Vice-President of the Sky & Space Parliamentary Intergroup and Karol Karski, Quaestor of the European Parliament.
During a visit of a delegation of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) headed by POLSA President Marek Banaszkiewicz in February 2016, Poland expressed interest in boosting cooperation with Ukraine in the creation of new space and rocket technologies, including Earth remote sensing satellites.
