Russia, Canada seek joint Arctic space monitoring project

June 30, 2010 at 6:54 am | Posted in Remote Sensing Law Current Events | Leave a comment

by Joanne Irene Gabrynowicz with the blog faculty

Source: Ria Novosti

Russia and Canada will start negotiations on the integration of their national space systems to monitor the Arctic, a Russian space official said on Tuesday.

Anatoly Shilov, deputy head of the Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said the first Russian-Canadian meeting was scheduled for August.

“We are currently discussing which services will be provided by Russian satellites and which by Canadian satellites,” he said. More…