ORBITAL RECEIVING STATION LAUNCHED

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06:07 pm | April 01, 2009

Official

The Prime Minister of Armenia, Tigran Sargsyan, accompanied by the
Ministers of Defence, Economy and Emergency Situations, the Chairman of
the State Committee of the Real Estate Cadastre, the Chairman of the
National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Defense, National Security
and Internal Affairs, visited the Center of Geodesy and Cartography
of the State Committee on Real-Estate Cadastre to participate in the
launching of an orbital receiving station. The Prime Minister walked
about the center, got familiarised with the working conditions and
talked to the employees.

The creation of the orbital station is to receive exact data about
Armenia’s territory with the application of space technologies. The
station provides an opportunity to make use of the opportunities
of artificial satellites in the near-earth orbit and explore
the Earth. The data will be used for solving issues of geodesy,
cartography, as well as security and economic issues.