Without it, communications and television broadcasting, navigation and meteorology, surveying and cartography, and many other sectors of the national economy would be inconceivable.
Space technologies are something no progressive power can do without.
It is hard to overestimate importance of space systems in maintaining the country's defense capability. Space activity in Russian Federation is to be implemented with a view to ensuring the prosperity of citizens, the development of the Russian Federation, the strengthening of its security and resolving the global problems of humanity. The Federal Space Program of Russia is being organized in line with the requirements and economic resources of society and the state. Space projects should be designed to tackle tasks with the greatest socio-economic impact, primarily in the development of networks for receiving, processing, and transmitting information, communications, television broadcasting, environmental monitoring, and sensing natural resources. Work or an exploratory nature enabling fundamentally new tasks to be set and tackled, and also applied work commissioned by specific consumers, should be given priority in scientific space research.