KYIV. Nov 28 (Interfax-Ukraine) – Ukraine and China are preparing to expand cooperation in the space sector, updated cooperation plans were outlined in a new version of the program of bilateral cooperation in the space sector until 2020, which has been recently adopted in Beijing.
The updated version of the program of bilateral cooperation in the space sector for 2016-2020 was approved during a session of the working group and the 4th meeting of the Sub-Commission on Cooperation in Space Sector of the Ukrainian-Chinese Intergovernmental Commission, the Ukrainian State Space Agency’s press service reported.
“During the meeting, the interim results of the implementation in 2017 of the program of Ukrainian-Chinese cooperation in the field of space for 2016-2020 were summed up, the Protocol was signed and the updated version of the program was adopted, the sides noted the development of positive dynamics of cooperation in the space sector between the two countries, and outlined cooperation areas in the medium and long term,” the report says.
New areas of cooperation included in the updated version of the program are confidential and are not open to public, the press service of the space agency specified to the agency Interfax-Ukraine.
China is among long and prospective partners of Ukraine in the space sector.
As reported, Ukraine and China approved a long-term program of cooperation in the space sector for the period of 2016-2020 during a previous meeting of the subcommittee on cooperation in the space sector of the Ukrainian-Chinese intergovernmental commission in Kyiv on April 7, 2016. The document provides for the joint implementation of more than 70 projects. Most of them envisage the creation of rocket and space technologies, taking into account China’s implementing the Lunar Exploration Program and a mission to study the planets of the solar system, as well as cooperation in the field of creating new materials and Earth remote sensing.
