Kazakhstan to realize new satellite navigation system project
By Aynur Jafarova
Kazakhstan will be able to monitor dams, bridges and other facilities from the space.
The news was announced by Kazakhstan's National Space Agency (Kazkosmos), Trend Agency reported.
"It is planned to implement the project on creation of a high-accuracy satellite navigation system jointly with Kazakhstan's Defense Ministry. The system will cover the following spheres: accurate mapping and surveying, monitoring of bridges, dams, buildings and other structures that require monitoring of deformations," Kazkosmos said.
The high-accuracy satellite navigation system will be used in the land registry, agriculture, all-weather navigation, construction and geological exploration work, national security and other areas.
"The project is aimed at creating conditions for the consumers of information from global satellite navigation systems in Kazakhstan to get qualitative real time-coordination and navigation services," Kazkosmos said.
The ground based infrastructure of high-accuracy satellite navigation system consists of the center of differential correction and monitoring, network of differential stations and so on.
Kazakhstan successfully launched its first earth remote sensing satellite-KazEOSat-1 into orbit from the French Guiana Space Center in April, and second earth observation satellite KazEOSat-2 in June 2014.
Kazakhstan was the first post-Soviet country after Russia which launched its own space satellite. KazSat was launched in June 2006, and the second Kazakh space satellite was launched in July 2011. KazSat-2 operates in the normal mode, provides services to 11 Kazakh operators, and gets over $2 billion tenge (about $11 millions) for its services.