28 Jan 2014 14:06

Roscosmos is working on creation of radar spacecraft - Ostapenko

MOSCOW. Jan 28 (Interfax-AVN) - The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is working with aerospace enterprises on the creation of radar spacecraft, which the Russian group currently does not have, Oleg Ostapenko, the head of Roscosmos, said in the Bauman Moscow State Technical University on Tuesday.

"Radar location is a very important and promising area. Unfortunately, we do not have such capabilities in our orbital spacecraft group. we are now actively contacting a number of enterprises to work on this issue," he said.

The negotiations between the Roscosmos administration and representatives of the industry took place several days ago, he said. However, Ostapenko did not name the enterprises with which negotiations are being held on this issue.