According to a report by Sputnik, Yuri Borisov, the Director-General of the Russian State Space Corporation, proposed that the South African Space Agency (SANSA) consider the deployment of a Russian data-receiving station on a South African territory that would receive information from Russian and foreign Earth observation satellites, during the BRICS meeting in South Africa on Monday. Mr Borisov further declared that Russia might build a new station and could supply South Africa with a full set of receiving and data storage equipment to receive, process and store the data from Earth observation satellites or modernise existing ones, which would make an additional contribution to SANSA’s efforts to develop the ground-based space infrastructure of the BRICS countries.
