Belarus, Russia team up to sell BKA, Canopus-B pictures

Russia’s VNIIEM Corporation (Research and Production Corporation Space Monitoring Systems, Information and Control and Electromechanical Complexes) and the Geoinformation Systems of the National Academy of Sciences signed a memorandum to set up a joint company for the commercial use of a part of the information resources of the unified orbital group consisting of the Russian satellite Canopus-B and the Belarusian satellite BKA. The memorandum was signed in Le Bourget. A joint venture will let use the Russian experience in distribution of the BKA materials on the Russian and foreign markets of space technology and services.

Besides, the joint efforts will promote demand and sales of the earth remote sensing materials got by the Belarusian-Russian satellite constellation.

With this, the Russian and Belarusian parties will take into account the prospects for developing and increasing the volumes of the materials as well as information services.