Russia Would Like to Have Space Tracking Stations in Venezuela
September 23, 2008
MOSCOW. Sept 23 (Interfax-AVN) – Russia would like to have “some civilian tracking stations [in Venezuela] to monitor our civilian space launch vehicles,” but the matter was not raised during a recent visit to the Latin American country by Russian space industry officials, head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Anatoly Perminov said on Tuesday.
“So far we only discussed legal relations and began to prepare a treaty on the use of space for civilian purposes,” Perminov told reporters.
Venezuela has not applied to Roscosmos to send a Venezuelan into space, Perminov said, in answering a question from Interfax-AVN.
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