16:10 08.02.2016

Ukraine, Poland to discuss space cooperation in Kyiv

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Ukraine, Poland to discuss space cooperation in Kyiv

Ukraine and Poland will discuss bilateral cooperation in the space sector during the first meeting of the ad hoc working group of the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Polish commission on economic cooperation on February 8-9 in Kyiv.

The meeting will be chaired by Ukrainian State Space Agency chief Liubomyr Sabadosh and Polish Space Agency (POLSA) head Marek Banaszkiewicz, the press service of the State Space Agency of Ukraine told to Interfax-Ukraine on Monday. The parties will discuss partnership plans with respect to joint production of a small-lift carrier rocket, space research, as well as a creation of a space center in Lviv.

The Polish delegation is to visit the leading Ukrainian space sector enterprises, namely, the state-run Pivdenne Design Bureau and Pivdenmash Mashine Building Plant (Dnipropetrovsk).

Poland joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in September 2012. The Polish Sejm endorsed the POLSA establishment in summer 2014.

Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers and ESA signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the use of outer space for peaceful purposes in January 2008. In early 2014 the agreement was extended until 2019.

The ESA is comprised of 17 European states.

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