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Plasma EXperiments
Project APEX
(1991)
| Russian Space Agency |
National Space Agency of Ukraine |
| Russian Academy of Sciences |
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine |
Project APEX is an international project and is a part
of national space research programs of RUSSIA and UKRAINE.
| Participant countries: |
Russia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Poland, Bulgaria,
Germany, Rumania, Hungary, USA, France, India |
| Russian participants: |
Project coordinator - Institute
of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave propagation, Russian
Academy of Sciences, IZMIRAN; |
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Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, IKI;
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Research Institute of Nuclear Physics,Moscow State University;
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Designing bureau FAKEL ;
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Flight Control Center;
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Military Space Forces of Russia.
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| Ukrainian participants: |
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Designing bureau YUZHNOE;
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NPO YUZHNOE;
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Paton Electrical welding Institute, National Academy of
Sciences of Ukraine;
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Institute of Electrodynamics, National Academy of Sciences
of Ukraine;
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Designing bureau of Institute of physics and mechanics,
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
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Kiev State University.
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| Head of the Project APEX: |
Victor N.Oraevsky, IZMIRAN Director |
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Academician of Russian Academy of Natural Sciences,Member
of International Academy of Informatics,Member of International Academy
of Astronautics, Professor,Doctor of Physics and Mathematics, Honored Scientist
of Russia, Laureate of State Prizes of Russia and Ukraine |
| Main Designer: |
Vladimir I.Dranovsky, Director of the Designing bureau
JUZHNOE Professor, Doctor of Engineering
Sciences
Project APEX was started on December 18, 1991,
when two spacecrafts were placed into the Earth orbits - main satellite
APEX and the subsatellite MAGION-3 .
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