Kyrgyzstan launched its first satellite using a US Falcon 9 rocket

Kyrgyzstan launched its first satellite into low-Earth orbit. This was reported by the press service of the presidential administration of the republic.

The spacecraft, designed to monitor farmland, glaciers, forests and grasslands, was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

The event was attended by the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov.

The spacecraft was created jointly by Kyrgyzstan and the United Arab Emirates.

In August, Deputy Head of the Small Spacecraft Research and Production Laboratory Dmitry Zuev announced the creation in Russia of the ReshuKub-4 satellite operating on “green” fuel.

In June, the head of the Roscosmos state corporation, Dmitry Bakanov, during the panel session “Space Economics: How to Attract Private Capital to the Space Industry” at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, said that by 2030, 90 percent of the Russian civil orbital constellation will consist of commercial satellites for navigation and communications.