Effective financing of the national targeted scientific and technical space program of Ukraine for 2013-2017 was 35% of the projected sum in 2017, the State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) has said.
According to a public report of the SSAU head for 2017 posted on the agency’s website, UAH 80.1 million was financed out of UAH 225.2 million announced by the program for 2017.
According to the report, effective financing of the tasks declared in the program was the following: 50% or UAH 45.06 million for remote sensing of Earth; 10% or UAH 3.7 million for improvement of space telecom and navigation systems; 100% or UAH 14.4 million financing in the interests of national security and defense; 51% or UAH 16.48 million for space studies and 18% or UAH 400,000 for deepening international cooperation.
According to the report, in 2017, the financing of tasks to create space complexes and ensure industrial and technological development was a nil.
Under the program in 2017 elements of the flight model of Sich-2-1 spacecraft were made, the spacecraft ground control and information complex was modernized, design documents and the Sich-2M spacecraft simulator were made; Microsat-M spacecraft which launch is scheduled for 2020 was partially tested, four navigation correction stations were bought, and equipment for Antares and Zenit-3SLB launch vehicles was made.
Earth remote sensing data received from foreign spacecraft was processed: TERRA, Pleiades-1A/1B, EROS-B, AQUA, SUOMI-NPP, LandSat-8, Sentinel-1A and NOAA type spacecraft.
