Space
in global safety of Humanity International Symposium (Cyprus, Limassol, November 2-4, 2009) V.A.Menshikov K.E.Tsiolkovskiy Russian
Academy of Cosmonautics Prevention of anthropogenic disasters and beforehand preparation to
predictable natural phenomena (earthquakes, tsunamis) by monitoring of their
presages and primary signs is an important activity which enables to
essentially weaken their destructive effects. The consequences
of such disasters are rather severe: in 2008 alone there were over 300 natural
and anthropogenic disasters with about a quarter of million victims. These
cataclysms are accompanied by serious economic damage. According to the data
from international organizations, the natural and anthropogenic disasters that
occurred over the last 30 years caused the damage of $1.5 trillion. The problem
of human safety became global. The first
proposals on establishment of such a system with joint efforts of the
international community were submitted at the International Conference "Advanced
Space Technologies for the Humankind Prosperity" (Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine,
2007), reported later at the international scientific Forums "Space for
Humanity" (Korolyov City, Russia, 2008), "Advanced Space Systems and
Application" (Shanghai, China, 2008), Mediterranean Conference on Astronautics
(Tunisia, 2008), and further discussed in the framework of the Academic Day at
the International Academy of Astronautics (Glasgow, Scotland, 2008). In This wide-ranging
scientific forum was supported by the U.N.O., some foreign space agencies, many
national and international scientific, public and non-governmental
organizations. The scientists, engineers and managers from 18 countries took part
in it, including the representatives from the space branch of At the grand
opening ceremony of the Symposium the participants were greeted by members of
the International organizing committee: Dr. Jean Michel Contant, General
Secretary of the International Academy of Astronautics; Prof. T.A. Musabayev,
Head of the National Space Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Dr.
O.A.Zinchenko, General Director of the National Space Agency of Ukraine; D.D.Prunariu,
President of Romanian Space Agency; A.Paschalidus, Minister of industry, culture,
trade and tourism of the Republic of Cyprus; S.B.Shestakov, Chief of the
international cooperation Office at the
Department of new challenges and threats of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of
Russia; A.N.Perminov, Head of the Federal Space Agency of Russia. Plenary papers
were reported by the managers of core Russian and foreign associations. The
main goals and trends of the world community activities were announced in the
area of space engineering and technology application for IGMAS Project
implementation, the future system was outlined, forecast, information and
telecommunication tasks that can be solved using this system were specified,
and promising trends of international cooperation in these spheres were stated. The Symposium
activities fall into five areas: -
space
exploration and global problems of Humanity and the present (space activities
and sustainable development; the role of promising space technologies in danger
slackening and diminution of deleterious consequences of natural disasters and
anthropogenic catastrophes; philosophic aspects of cosmonautics: development of
"cosmism" concept and problematic of "space thinking"); -
predictable
outline of IGMAS (goals, tasks, versions of structure and arrangement of IGMAS
operation; concepts for the system control, aerospace monitoring data
acquisition, processing and distribution; economic aspects of establishment,
deployment and operation of IGMAS; staging of the IAA IGMAS Project
implementation); -
methods
and means for the global aerospace monitoring of natural disasters,
emergencies, anthropogenic accidents and disasters (capabilities of existing
and future orbital, aviation and ground hardware together with methods and
technologies for aerospace monitoring for the benefit of prediction and timely
warnings about natural phenomena (earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, avalanches,
mud flows, etc.) and emergencies, large-scale anthropogenic accidents and
disasters; environmental monitoring of the Earth and near-Earth space;
monitoring of military conflicts, regions of terrorist threats, drugs
trafficking routs, and sea piracy); -
promising
technologies for acquisition and distribution of data (technologies for
acquisition, computer processing and multidimensional presentation of aerospace
monitoring information, including the one based on "neo-geography" concepts, in
the systems of decision-making at the international, regional, state and
corporate levels); -
prospects
of utilization of IGMAS information resources (knowledge distribution,
development of telecommunication technologies for distant education, problems
of formation of integrated educational space on the basis of advanced
information and space technologies, problems of emergency medicine, etc.). The range of submitted papers was quite broad: from
development of a single strategy for space exploration on the basis of
engineering and technological potential of multifunctional space monitoring
systems to some individual engineering achievements in the sphere of Earth
remote sensing (ERS) and methodology of dangerous natural phenomena prediction. The problem of
information and telecommunication support of users all over the world is an
independent challenge. Possible application of the widest range of space
technologies in IGMAS structure for radio communication support (including retransmission
of remote sensing data) opens the doors to participation of radio amateurs from
all the countries in development of the Project, namely in tryout of its space
and ground components, complexes and systems. E.g. the predesigned deployment
of autonomous constellation of small space vehicles and microsatellites
equipped with special hardware for retransmission, control of ionosphere
condition and some other critical geophysical parameters will demand a great
scope of work on its testing and calibration. And not only the specialists of
core companies will take part in this process but also the enthusiast amateur radio
operators. The Symposium participants were unanimous in their opinion that IGMAS
would base on the concepts of advanced engineering and technological
achievements in the Earth sensing, space, aviation and ground means of all the
countries. Together with resources of the system under development, the
national ( Considering a great number of scientific and applied tasks associated
with development of both the system and its components that can be solved only
by joint efforts of scientists and engineers of different countries, the
Symposium participants came to an unanimous decision that such a project should
be supervised and promoted by the International Academy of Astronautics as an
organization which had absorbed the world scientific potential in space science
and engineering, first of all for the benefit of the whole Humanity. According
to the decision made at the Symposium, the Academy together with the
International Association "Znanie" in the course of the coming year will submit
the Project of IGMAS to UNO. Prospects of its practical implementation by the
world community will be discussed at the sessions of core UNO committees and
subsequently submitted to the annual UNO General Assembly. To this end the
corresponding appeal to the UNO will be prepared in the nearest future with the
request to estimate the key aspects of IGMAS establishment and operation for
the benefit of international community on the whole and implementation of the
proposed projects in the framework of UNO. The Symposium has also advised to address to the national space
agencies, core international scientific and public organizations for support of
IGMAS Project. For the same purpose the Project Manager's report on results of
the Project promotion was offered to be included in agenda of the Academic day
in Prague (26 September 2010). The preliminary results of this work will be discussed at the joint
working meeting of the public committee responsible for the IGMAS Project
promotion in the framework of Cyprus Symposium and a group of international
experts. The meeting is to be held in The concept of International aerospace system for global monitoring
proposed by Russian scientists and supported by their foreign colleagues is
supposed to fulfill complex solution of the widest range of forecasting,
telecommunication and environmental tasks. It could be considered as a key
concept that if implemented would be able to outline the beginning of new
integrated strategy of space exploration aimed at environmentally safe and
socially sustainable development of the world community, relying on the common
everlasting values, at maintenance of life on the Earth. Valeriy Alexandrovich
Menshikov,
Designer General of the Multifunctional Space System of the Union State, Deputy
Director General of Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center,
Director and Scientific Supervisor of A.A.Maximov Research Institute of Space
Systems - Branch of Khrunichev Research and Production Space Center, Head of
"Space Communication & Control Facilities" Department of Moscow State
Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automatics; Doctor of Technical
Sciences, Professor; Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation,
Laureate of the Prize of the Russian Federation Government, Academician
of the International Academy of Astronautics, Member of Presidium of Russian
Cosmonautics Federation; Vice-President of K.E.Tsiolkovskiy Russian Academy of
Cosmonautics, President of Moscow Regional Department of RACT. Author of more
than 600 published scientific proceedings and monographs popularizing
achievements of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics. Field of scientific interests:
applied space mechanics, development and application of space engineering, for
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