On May 17, in Chernogolovka (Moscow Region), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev held a board meeting of the Presidential Council on economic modernization and innovative development of Russia on the innovative development in the field of environmental safety and environmental management. Director of ScanEx RDC, Sputnix company BoD Chairperson Olga Gershenzon took part in the meeting. 

From May 13 to May 18 the Institute of Leading Specialists Refresher Training at the RosHydroMet held a workshop "Modern System of Distance Learning, Organization and Methodology of Training" attended by the specialists from hydro-meteorological centers of Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

In 2013, after an absence of two years, the magic ice rings in the ice cover of Lake Baikal appeared again.  They were detected within the Middle Baikal: near the Cape Krestovsky, and between Island Ol’khon and Peninsula Svyatoy Nos. The rings are clearly seen on the multi-temporal optical satellite images. Data from MODIS spectroradiometers aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites are of…

The global map of fires, detected as a result of operational satellite-based monitoring in now being tested in beta-mode on the SFMS service "Kosmosnimki - Fires". Now the updated information about fire situation in any region of our plant is available. This was made possible due to the integration of the FIRMS information system data (The Fire Information…

SPUTNIX, a resident of innovative center Skolkovo, has been granted a license by the Russian Federal Space Agency for engaging in space activity, namely: creating and modernizing small automatic space vehicles for scientific and commercial  purposes.

SPUTNIX specialists within the work on creation of a microsatellite platform TabletSat have assembled and tested the onboard control system equipment based on Space Plug-and-Play Architecture (SPA) specifications. This set of open standards has been developed by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, AIAA, jointly with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL.

ScanEx Research & Development Center carries out monitoring of natural fires on Russian territory using satellite imagery data. Starting from May 2013 the majority of thermal spots - probable fire center - were registered by the satellites in the Far East - in Zabaikal Territory, Republic of Tyva and Amur Region.

ScanEx RDC took part in the IX International special exhibition and the scientific congress "Interexpo GEO-Siberia", organized and held by the Siberian State Geodesic Academy (SSGA) on April 24-26 in Novosibirsk. Russian and foreign specialists, who delivered scientific reports.

Shorthand report of the interview with the General Director of ScanEx RDC Vladimir Gershenzon at the Finam FM radio station is published: "Today satellite imagery data may help organizing a Space Patrol, which will allow supporting socially important initiatives, a constructive dialogue between the authorities and the society".

SPUTNIX and MULTICLET Corp., residents of innovation center Skolkovo, signed an agreement on participation in joint development and application of highly performant fault tolerant low power consuming processor processors designed on the basis of multicellular architecture for control systems of small spacecraft.

An administrative offense case was opened against CJSC "Pacific Bridge Construction Company" on illegal dirt mining at the national park "Land of the Leopard". This was announced by the Senior Prosecutor's  Executive Officer of the Primorie Territory Elena Telegina. Illegal pit was detected in February when interpreting SPOT 5 images, submitted by ScanEx company for analysis by NGO Transparent World specialists.

ScanEx RDC specialists carried out testing of data, received from TH-01-1 satellite (China), and compared it with the French SPOT program data. Satellite images, acquired by TH-01 imaging system, are of great interest for users and basically challenge the data, acquired by the European SPOT program, which is currently represented by the SPOT 5and …

ScanEx RDC initiates a new partnership program within the framework of the “Express Kosmosnimki project”. This program was named “Express.Kosmosnimki.Pro” and is intended for promotion and development of B2B partnership relations.