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Poland sees a serious potential of partnership with Ukraine in the space area, and one of the most promising directions of cooperation in the new conditions could be the joint creation of space and rocket technologies, President of the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) Marek Banaszkiewicz has said.

At a meeting of the working group for the use of outer space of the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Polish commission for economic cooperation held in Kyiv, the POLSA head pointed at the creation of Earth remote sensing satellites as one of the promising direction of partnership.

“Ukraine and Poland have interesting practices in the area of Earth remote sensing data processing, but we’re also interested in the technology of creating spacecrafts of this kind, taking into account Ukraine’s achievements in the creation of Earth remote sensing satellites,” the press service of the State Space Agency of Ukraine reported, citing Banaszkiewicz.

He expressed confidence that uniting experience and Ukraine’s potential with the opportunities and knowledge of Poland in the space area has a serious competitive market potential.