The representative office is created with the purpose of training for the new Russian space-launch complex Vostochniy.
On Wednesday, January 28, the Supervisory Board of Samara State Aerospace University approved the plan to create representative office of SSAU in Blagoveshchensk, proposed by Rector Evgeniy Shakhmatov.
The new Russian space-launch complex Vostochniy and science town “Tsiolkovskiy” are built Next to this town in Amur Region. Earlier, Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chairman of SSAU Supervisory Board instructed the Heads of the University to establish specialists training for the space-launch complex and the science town.
The main objectives of the representative office of Samara State Aerospace University in Blagoveshchensk will be attraction of talented high school pupils and high school graduates to pursue higher education in engineering, organization of joint training programs with local universities for airspace specialists for the space-launch complex and enterprises of the Far Eastern Region.
At the moment, an agreement on mutual cooperation is signed between SSAU and the Ministry of Education and Science of Amur Region. It involves joint conduction of orientation training and training of youth on the newest areas of rocket and space technology development.
On Wednesday, January 28, the Supervisory Board of Samara State Aerospace University approved the plan to create representative office of SSAU in Blagoveshchensk, proposed by Rector Evgeniy Shakhmatov.
The new Russian space-launch complex Vostochniy and science town “Tsiolkovskiy” are built Next to this town in Amur Region. Earlier, Dmitry Rogozin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and Chairman of SSAU Supervisory Board instructed the Heads of the University to establish specialists training for the space-launch complex and the science town.
The main objectives of the representative office of Samara State Aerospace University in Blagoveshchensk will be attraction of talented high school pupils and high school graduates to pursue higher education in engineering, organization of joint training programs with local universities for airspace specialists for the space-launch complex and enterprises of the Far Eastern Region.
At the moment, an agreement on mutual cooperation is signed between SSAU and the Ministry of Education and Science of Amur Region. It involves joint conduction of orientation training and training of youth on the newest areas of rocket and space technology development.
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Construction of the space-launch complex “Vostochniy” began in 2008. The first launch of the carrier rocket is scheduled for December 2015. It is expected that the first rocket to be launched from the space-launch complex “Vostochniy” will be “Soyuz-2.1a” with injection block “Volga”, made by Samara Rocket and Space Centre “Progress”. The satellite “Aist-2”, which is created by engineers of Samara enterprise and SSAU students, will be a part of payload. Along with “Aist-2” two more university spacecraft: nanosatellite of SSAU students and “Lomonosov” (Moscow State University) will be delivered into orbit.
