Yerevan, April 2, Noyan Tapan. Armenia's Prime Minister Tigran Sargsian participated in the launching of the orbital receiving station at the Center of Geodesy and Cartography of the State Committee on Real-Estate Cadastre. According to the press-release of the Information and PR Department of the government, the prime minister walked around the rooms of the center, get acquainted with working conditions and talked to the personnel. The creation of the orbital station is aimed at receiving exact data about Armenia's territory with the help of space technologies. The station enables to use the capabilities of artificial satellites in the near-earth orbit (up to 1000 km) and implement remote sensing of the Earth. The data will be used to meet the challenges in geodesy and cartography, as well as to solve security and economic issues.

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