Russia to build EO satellite for Iran
Two Russian space companies and Iran’s Bonyan Danesh Shargh firm have signed an agreement on joint development of an Earth remote-sensing satellite system for Iran. The agreement was signed at the MAKS-2015 air show in the presence of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and Roscosmos General Director Igor Komarov. VNIIEM Corporation CEO Leonid Makridenko specified that the pre-сontractual arrangement covers the development of an earth remote-sensing system based on an upgraded version of the Kanopus-V1 (Canopus-B) observation satellite. The launch of the system on a Russian Soyuz carrier rocket is tentatively scheduled for 2018.
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