Roscosmos State Corporation and Gazprom propose to create a unified federal system of geotechnical monitoring of hazardous production facilities. The development of the method of radar interferometry with the use of competitive domestic satellites will allow to keep dangerous objects under observation in Russia, including in hard-to-reach places, with significantly smaller costs than those require terrestrial tracking methods.
The issue of creating a federal satellite system of geotechnical monitoring of the OPO was discussed April 20, 2021 at a special interdepartmental meeting, which jointly organized the state corporation “Roskosmos” and Gazprom. Meeting of the meeting of the Ministry of Earth, Mintnergo, Ministry of Energy, Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Federal Services of Rosprirodnadzor, Rostekhnadzor, Rosreestr, as well as Rosatom State Corporation, Transneft, Gazprom Space Systems and Gazprom SPKA.
Following the meeting, it was decided to support the introduction of a unified system of geotechnical monitoring of the OPO in the Russian Federation on the basis of domestic spacecraft of radar observation, including those created under the program “Sphere”. In order to study this task in the Coordination Center of the Government of the Russian Federation, an interdepartmental working group will be formed with representatives of the state corporation “Roskosmos”, interested federal executive bodies, energy and power companies.
Space geotechnical monitoring technology will help prevent man-made accidents associated with geodynamic processes in the depths of the Earth. This will contribute to the solution of the task of protecting the population from emergency situations that president of the Russian Federation in October 2020, president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation in October 2020.
Currently, about 100 thousand hazardous industries and other objects where there are risks of emergency situations, and the annual damage from man-made accidents and disasters reaches 3-5% of GDP. Among the largest incidents associated with geodynamic processes, the dips of the soil in Solikamsk and the Berezniki of the Perm region at the potash-magnesium saline deposit, the destruction of the Diesel fuel reservoir fuel, “Norilsk Nickel”, which led to the pollution of the rivers Ambarne and Doldikan.
The Program of Comprehensive Development of Space Information Technologies “Sphere”, which is implemented by the state corporation “Roskosmos”, provides for the creation of multi-contact spacecraft monitoring systems, as well as the construction of the assembly production of spacecraft in the city of Shchelkovo Moscow region, where Samal communication satellites will be produced, satellites remote sensing of the land “View”, as well as small serial devices for multi-contact groups.