On 23 February the meeting of the Scientific and Technical Coincil of SSA was held to discuss the main provisions of the draft Space Program for the period 2021-2025.  The meeting was attended by representatives of leading space enterprises, including SRI, representatives of the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development. The main provisions and tasks of new Space Program for 2021-2025 were approved. The Council supported the initiative to establish an expert commission (under SSA Council) on perspective space projects and to launch a discussion of the document "Fundamentals of state policy in the area of  space activities" prepared by SRI.

On 17 February 2021 at the meeting of the Presidium of the NAS of Ukraine  Oleh Fedorov reported the results of the NASU Research Program "Aerospace environmental observations for sustainable development and security as a national segment of the Horizon 2020 ERA-PLANET project" on 2018-2020. Previously the report was heard at the meeting of the Coordinating Board of the Physical and Technical Sciences Section. Taking into account the obtained results NASU Presidium approved the decision to prolong the term of implementation of the Program in the years 2021-2023.

Space Research Institute prepared the Report “Space Research in Ukraine 2018-2020” for the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) "Space Research in Ukraine 2018-2020". Electronic English version of the publication  is available on the COSPAR site and a printed version will be issued later.

Electronic English version of the publication

The State Space Agency of Ukraine, by the order of 15 January, 2021, the list of members of the SSA Scientific and Technical Council of Ukraine was approved. The Scientific and Technical Council was headed by Acting Chairman of the SSA of Ukraine Lev M.O., members of the Council are the First President of the NAS of Ukraine Gorbulin V.P, Director of GAO NAS of Ukraine Yatskiv Ya.S, Director of SRI of NASU and SSAU Fedorov O.P, Director of ITM NASU and SSAU Pilipenko O.P.