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TOMSK, Apr 12 – RIA Tomsk. Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics (TUSUR) within strategic partnership with the
Rocket and Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) plans to conduct training
and experiments at the International Space Station (ISS), the director of
Research Institute of Automation and Electromechanics Victor Rulevsky said on
Wednesday.
According to the university, TUSUR and RSC Energia signed an agreement,
"which implies achieving a competitive advantage in priority
interdisciplinary educational, scientific and technological areas aimed at
innovative development of the Russian Federation".
"Within the framework of this agreement, there are a number of areas: from
training, joint work on robotics, using our ground-based test equipment (for
systems used in spacecrafts – Ed.)", – said Rulevsky at a press conference
in the media center of RIA Tomsk.
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He explained that cooperation between RSC Energia and the university implies
working with communication, power and control systems, radar and other
equipment intended for inhabited and uninhabited spacecrafts.
"Also the possibility of carrying out a row of experiments on the ISS
platform is studied. We are preparing proposals which we will soon form and
send to RSC Energia", – Rulevsky marked.
As specified in the press service of the university, RSC Energia and TUSUR plan
to create a unified innovative scientific and educational infrastructure with
the use of the material resources, equipment and human resources of the
university and corporation, implementation of educational initiatives (for
example, holding the school competition on robotics in the city of Korolev,
Moscow region).