Ensuring the launch of the Amazonas-5 telecommunications satellite (Spain) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome
The communications satellite will be used for the provision of television, corporate networks and telephone services in South and Central America.
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Prepared by the Roscosmos state corporation in keeping with the Russian Federation Law On Space Activity.
The directive approves an array of measures to ensure the launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome of the Amazonas-5 telecommunications satellite (Spain) (hereinafter referred to as Amazonas-5). It provides in particular for the provision of services involving Russian Defence Ministry assets and granting foreign specialists access to facilities related to the launch.
Amazonas-5 was manufactured by Space System Loral (US) under contract with Hispasat (Spain). It is designed to provide television, corporate networks and telephone services in South and Central America. When it reaches its designated orbit, the satellite will be included in Brazil’s national register.
All launch operations will be financed from private sources.
Ensuring the launch of the Sentinel-5P observation satellite (European Space Agency) from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
The satellite is intended to achieve objectives under the European Commission’s Copernicus Programme and will be used to obtain data on the composition of the earth’s atmosphere and study the climate and the quality of the atmospheric air. After reaching its designated orbit, it will be added to the national register of the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Prepared by the Roscosmos state corporation in keeping with the Russian Federation Law On Space Activity.
The directive approves an array of measures to ensure the launch from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome of the Sentinel-5P research satellite (European Space Agency) (hereinafter referred to as Sentinel-5P). It provides in particular for the provision of services involving Russian Defence Ministry assets and granting foreign specialists access to facilities related to the launch.
Sentinel-5P was manufactured by Thales Alenia Space. It is intended to achieve objectives under the European Commission’s Copernicus Programme and will be used to obtain data on the composition of the earth’s atmosphere and study the climate and the quality of the atmospheric air. When it reaches its designated orbit, the satellite will be included in the ESA’s national register.
All launch operations will be financed from private sources.
Approval of the draft Protocol between the Government of Russia and the Government of Japan on amending the Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas
The signing of the Protocol will make it possible to ensure a higher level of safety for the navigation of Russian and Japanese warships and aircraft flights in direct proximity to each other outside territorial seas.
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Submitted by the Russian Defence Ministry.
The directive approves the Defence Ministry’s recommendation that Russia sign the draft Protocol between the Government of Russia and the Government of Japan on amending the Agreement on the Prevention of Incidents On and Over the High Seas of 13 October 1993 (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol).
The Protocol clarifies the existing legal basis for ensuring the predictability and safety of operations by warship and aircraft crews of both countries during navigation outside territorial waters and flights in the airspace over them.
The signing of the Protocol will make it possible to ensure a higher level of safety for the navigation of Russian and Japanese warships and aircraft flights in direct proximity to each other outside territorial seas.