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Belarusian scientists together with Russian colleagues created new equipment for International space station

BSU Research institute of applied physical problems named after Sevchenko together with Institute of geography of Russian academy of science developed photo spectral system for forecasting and monitoring of natural and industrial disasters. Innovational equipment will be established at the International space station. That was reported by the senior researcher of remote photometry laboratory under Belarusian institute Sergei Khvalei.

BSU Research institute of applied physical problems named after Sevchenko together with Institute of geography of Russian academy of science developed photo spectral system for forecasting and monitoring of natural and industrial disasters. Innovational equipment will be established at the International space station. That was reported by the senior researcher of remote photometry laboratory under Belarusian institute Sergei Khvalei.

Currently the system is under the final testing in the rocket and space corporation “Energy”. It is expected to be delivered to the ISS by the cargo spacecraft “Progress” already in April of the next year and will be established there on the Russian segment in order to undertake the space experiment “Uragan”.

With the help of the innovation the scientists will receive the additional opportunities to forecast and monitor different natural and industrial disasters. New system will allow defining the spreading area of dust storms, to detect the scale of pollution after disasters at industrial projects and oil pipelines, to register the pace and fronts of spring melting of snow. The development will help to solve many other ecological problems as well as to research the dynamics of overgrowing of plough-lands, to follow the industrial impact on environment, to solve large forestlands and to define the structure of their species and to find unprotected territories with rare types of flora.

“Space technologies will allow organizing regular observation of the development of dangerous processes and environmental phenomena and on the base of this information to take ultimate solutions in order to eliminate and minimize their affect, - said Sergei Khvalei. – The monitoring will give an opportunity not only to detect natural and man-induced disasters but also to forecast their development”.

The scientific program “Uragan” during which new apparatus has been created provides the research of natural resources, monitoring of environment, study and forecast of natural and industrial disasters.