Worldwide the spatial orientation, habitat selection, and behaviour of many animal species is already being investigated with the Argos Satellite System. Satellite telemetry utilizes a platform transmitter terminal (PTT, that could include sensors to measure depth, temperature, light level and humidity) attached to an animal which sends an ultra high frequency (401.650 MHz) signal to satellites. The satellites calculate the animal's location based on the Doppler effect and relay this information to receiving/interpreting sites on the ground. Two satellites are needed to obtain location information. Accuracy varies from within 150 m to 3 km. Global Positioning System (GPS) positions are processed along with Argos locations through the Argos system with an accuracy of 5-15 m (such tags could include GSM modem to send data directly to a hand phone of a researcher). Not only the cost of PTT and GPS tags is high (900-3000$), but the researcher must pay for the data acquisition and processing which can cost $90-260 per month per animal. That s why universities launch their own satellites to receive data from these tags at lesser costs (like TUBSAT-A of Technical University of Berlin). Department of Vertebrate Zoology of Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU) conducts research with a variety of animals that needs satellite tracking. Some of the species are endangered, like the sea-eagle (Haliaeetus pelagicus) and the swan goose (Anser cygnoides), for which satellite telemetry has been employed to trace migration routes in the Far East region together with our colleagues from Tokyo University. The lightest PTT known nowadays weighs 9.5 g, that still limits the use of satellite telemetry for tracking a large number of small animals like passerine birds, rodents and amphibians - the subjects of study of students of the 1-2 year at Zvenigorod Biological Station (MSU) during their summer practice. That s why one should find perspective to invent smaller transmitters for future reseach and education. Another useful tool for studying animal habitat selection and human environmental pressure is remote sensing. Laboratory of Geoecology of North (MSU) includes a group of scientists which are specialized on decoding earth images received from satellites. The group has developed it own program Timan for decoding images. Together with students from Department of Vertebrate Zoology (MSU) they ve conducted a research on the migration and habitat selection of the Barnacle goose (Branta leucopsis) in Barents Sea region and whales movements near Sakhalin. The group has also organized a student training course Remote sensing techniques in studying the environment and soil cover at the Faculty of Soil Science (MSU).