Sat, Aug 20, 2005
President Putin Gets A Look At The Clipper
MAKS -- the biennial Russian
International Aviation and Space Salon -- is being held in
Zhukovsky, close to Moscow, from 16 to 21 August. Space exploration
has a prominent role at MAKS 2005 as for the first time the Russian
Federal Space Agency, as well as ESA, are exhibitors.
All together 42 countries, 130 foreign aerospace companies and 500
Russian companies. are taking part in the air show. ESA’s
presence is a sign of the growing cooperation between ESA and
Russia marked by the working group on cooperation with Russia set
up by ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency at the beginning of
this year. The working group is in the process of drawing up a
Euro-Russian Space Cooperation Plan for presentation to ESA’s
Ministerial Council in December.
A number of presentations are taking place at the ESA stand to
inform visitors about the many areas of ESA-Russian cooperation;
these include the development of future launchers, scientific
interplanetary missions, scientific experiments on board the
International Space Station (ISS), joint microgravity experiments
in space and projects for Earth observation.
There will also be a presentation of Europe’s new
navigation system Galileo, as well as its precursor EGNOS, and
demonstrations of the EURITEX database for the exchange of
technology information between European and Russian industries. At
its stand, ESA will also show videos on the different areas of
cooperation between ESA and the Federal Space Agency.
“I was able to speak to President Putin about ESA and the
Federal Space Agency’s collaboration on launching Soyuz from
Europe’s Spaceport as well as on new generation
launchers,” said ESA’s Antonio Fabrizi.
“We also spoke about future collaboration on projects such
as Clipper, in which a number of ESA Member States, including
Italy, France, Germany, Belgium and Spain, have expressed
interest”, added Fabrizi. “President Putin expressed
his best wishes for the December meeting of ESA’s Ministerial
Council and his hope that this will lead to further collaboration
between ESA and Russia. I found President Putin friendly, open and
positive. Our conversation was very informal and I believe that
when you speak informally you say what you feel.”
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