1. In terms of scientific and technological EU program titled “7th Framework Program”, the Institute performs LEOSWEEP project in which the following companies participate:
Engineering company (Sener Ingenieria y Sistemas)
Polytechnic University of Madrid
Spain
TransMIT Gesellschaft für Technologietransfer mbH
German Aerospace Center
Germany
University of Southampton
Great Britain
The National Centre for Scientific Research
The Laboratory of Plasma Physics (Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas)
France
Private aerospace industrial company “DEIMOS ENGENHARIA S.A.”
Portugal
The Institute of Technical Mechanics of the National Academy of Sciences and the State Space Agency of Ukraine
“Yuzhnoe” Design Office (Yuzhnoye SDO)
Ukraine
International Centre of Space Law (ICSL)
Ukraine and Russia
The purpose of the LEOSWEEP project (“Low-Earth orbit safety increase with the help of advanced electric propulsion”) is to demonstrate the technological feasibility of the first active mission to remove the upper stage of one of Ukrainian missiles, to prove its economic expediency, and the real path that will lead in future to the beginning of large scale active procedures for debris removal which relates to the jurisdiction of Ukraine, Europe and other countries with space programs.