Dnepropetrovsk region will allocate one million dollars for launch of Ukrainian satellite

From the regional budget of the Dnepropetrovsk region plan to allocate $ 1 million for co-financing the launch of a new Ukrainian satellite, the total cost of launch of which is $ 8-10 million.

This was reported on Facebook by Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Development Dmitry Kysilevsky.

The deputy informed that at his initiative in Dnipro the first meeting of the parliamentary committee on economic development was held, which brought together the entire space establishment of Ukraine.

About 11,000 unique specialists are employed at the Dnipro enterprises in the space industry, whose realization of the potential depends entirely on the state, he stressed.

    “The first practical result of the outgoing meeting: the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, Alexander Bondarenko, announced his willingness to allocate $ 1 million from the regional budget. To co-finance the launch of a Ukrainian satellite produced in the Southern KB in the Dnieper. The Ministry of Economy and the Space Agency will be advised to initiate the financing of this project. The satellite is already made. Startup cost is $ 8-10 million. ” He wrote.