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Lukashenko checked his "squirrel" in the suburbs
The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, visited Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday, in Wednesday.
“The Belarusian leader was demonstrated by the first national Belarusian satellite of the remote sensing of the Earth called“ Squirrel ”, ” the representative of the RSC Energia told RIA Novosti .
According to him, Lukashenko wished the employees of the enterprise to meet the agreed terms of the creation of the spacecraft, since the first Belarusian satellite should be brought to orbit on December 5, 2005.
The device will be brought to a height of about 510-515 kilometers, the Russian conversion launch vehicle Dnipro.
The spacecraft will be used for conducting geodetic, cartographic and meteorological work for five years. "Squirrel" is the Belarusian spacecraft of the land remote sensing created by the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation "Energia" on the basis of the universal space platform "Victoria" by order of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
The cost of a satellite is about $ 9 million, which is about ten times cheaper than American analogues. The payback period of the device is six months.