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Turkmenistan plans to launch its second satellite, Turkmen State News Agency (TDH) reports on Friday.
In 2018-2024, Turkmenistan will invest about 1.3 billion Turkmen manats to develop the space industry.
The investment covers a satellite that will be designed for remote sensing of the Earth. The space device will be used to develop all the sectors of the national economy and collect data on hard-to-get, high-speed, and other objects.
Sensing will help conduct the ecological monitor of oil fields, pipe corridors, and oil refineries, as well as detect oil spills and control operations of oil and gas companies.
The satellite will regularly shoot images of regions, measure sizes of farm fields and pastures, and collect data on agricultural lands.
The satellite images will boost efficiency of monitoring of construction works, construction and reconstruction of transport infrastructure, ecological status of Caspian Sea onshore and offshore, TDH reports.
The first TürkmenÄlem 52°Е satellite was placed into low Earth orbit in 2015 for the purpose of telecommunication and data transmission even in remote settlements sitting in the Kara-Kum desert.
($1 = 3.5 Turkmen manats on Dec. 22)
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