JSC “National Center of Space Research and Technology”

Types of activity

The main objective of the Company’s activity is to carry out scientific  Research, design and experimental, as well as production and economic activities in space research and technology. The Company carries out the following activity:

   1) coordinating and supporting scientific and scientific-technological activities of scientific organizations for fundamental and applied scientific research, including:

          – establishing the main directions and plans of scientific research of scientific organizations, accepting completed scientific research carried out by scientific organizations and submitting them to the Aerospace Committee of the Ministry of Defense and the Aerospace Industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the “Committee”);

         – hearing the annual reports of scientific organizations on scientific and scientific and technological activities and providing the Committee with conclusions and recommendations based thereon;

          2) establishing interdisciplinary programs, coordinating research activities with scientific organizations within other prospects;

        3) providing scientific and technical support of technological development of ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure; radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, space life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing of natural and man-made processes, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

        4) developing and/or operating, participating in developing and/or operating the space facilities of different purpose, space communication, navigation, and remote sensing systems:

        – carrying out research and works to ensure the environmental safety of the use of launch vehicles of different purpose, including their environmental impact assessment and certification;

        – performing scientific and technical evaluation of existing and promising projects on space research and development of space systems;

       5) carrying out fundamental and applied works within space research, establishing the scientific basis of modern space technologies and their use in different economic sectors in Kazakhstan:

        – studying the atmosphere and geological substrate using aerospace sensing and character recognition in order to develop technologies for monitoring and forecasting territorial systems;           

– using technologies of space monitoring and remote sensing in order to perform application tasks in the field of ecology, agriculture, geology, cartography, land use, water management, and other territorial facilities and processes;

        – developing and using aerial and satellite survey methods and developing geographic information systems based thereon;

– receiving, processing, distributing, making equivalent exchange, and selling data of the Earth’s remote sensing from space;

6) carrying out research in space materials science, physics of metals, physics of plasticity, and heat treatment in order to solve problems of developing new structural materials with a given structure and properties;

       7) preparing offers based on the state priorities and providing scientific and technical support of technological development of ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure; participating in the design, design and technological, and structural design works and in the commercial exploitation of new space technologies for ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure; radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing and monitoring of natural and man-made processes, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

        8) participating in commercial exploitation of new technologies for ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure, radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, space life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing and monitoring, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

        9) participating in the development of scientific and methodological, as well as regulatory and engineering support of functioning of the space infrastructure;

       10) participating in developmental works on invention of devices and equipment for the space industry, navigation and medical equipment, and for other industries;

       11) building a data bank concerning technologies, devices, and equipment for ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure, radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, space life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing and monitoring, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

       12) within its competence cooperating with similar organizations from foreign countries with regards to the development of interstate scientific and technological cooperation in the field of space technologies, new technologies in radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, space life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

       13) ensuring development and operation of experimental, production, and social sphere of the Company;

       14) participating in the development of regulatory documentation concerning environmental and technical safety at the enterprises and facilities of space and other industries that use space technologies;

         15) participating in provision of the scientific support of activities on standardization, IT-based management, automation, certification, and service maintenance of the enterprises and facilities of space and other industries that use space technologies;

          16) participating in performance of contracted works for the development, manufacture, and commissioning of new devices and equipment for ground-based and satellite-based space infrastructure, radio electronics and communications, materials science and engineering, space life sciences, monitoring and forecasting of space weather, remote sensing and monitoring, geoinformational modeling of natural territorial complexes, ecosystems, and natural and man-made processes;

        17) establishing direct cooperation with scientific organizations and enterprises of different forms of incorporation and creating conditions in order to provide the scientific and information support of research, protect scientific and intellectual property, implement common projects, and to maintain scientific cooperation;

        18) participating in promotion of scientific and space technology achievements; participating in arranging and holding of international and republican congresses, sessions, conferences, workshops, meetings, exhibitions; participating in publishing of scientific journals and papers.