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Lragir.am -- Today the chair of the State Board of the Real Estate Cadastre of Armenia Manuk Vardanyan informed that a space monitoring station is foreseen to open in Armenia soon, which will enable to map the terrain for defense, agriculture and other purposes, Manuk Vardanyan said.
Manuk Vardanyan said already an agreement has been signed with Roscosmos but declined to reveal details about the place and time of opening the station.
Google Earth...
nazarian 11 weeks 1 day ago
Google Earth...
pretty good news (if real)
Կարեն Կարապետյան 11 weeks 1 day ago
If this materialises, this is actually pretty good news. Armenia needs something like this, especially in terms of defense.
Let's hope that it's not another episode in the series of hoop dreams that we've been hearing lately...
I wonder if they're actually going to put up a satellite of their own, or just rent a feed from a Russian satellite?
"ground control to major Tom"
Emil Sanamyan 11 weeks 1 day ago
Arent they talking about a ground station to monitor space, rather than a space station looking down on earth? In this case at least.
Indeed, the direction of the gaze is ambibuous:
Կարեն Կարապետյան 11 weeks 21 hr ago
Indeed, the direction of the gaze is ambibuous:
"To map the terrain for defense" implies looking down at earth, rather than looking out into the space. No?
Given the 2009 budget, Armenia could afford putting at least one spy-satellite into the orbit for defense purposes. But in this case, it could also mean just building a ground station and renting a signal from the Russians.
I just bumped into this Lragir item while browsng the Khosq Aggregator and I thought this is very interesting and unusual piece of news that was not mentioned by any other news sources.
If anyone else knows more about this, please post a comment here. Cheers.
PS: If anyone is using GoogleEarth, the cease-fire line, trenches and other spots of high strategic importance are visible in as much detail as urban Yerevan. It's a security risk, but I'm sure they move the artillery and air defense pieces all the time. It's a common practice (within the artilery tactics at least).
Maybe they want to dominate
Payqar 10 weeks 4 days ago
Maybe they want to dominate the space.
There were similar ventures before such as, curing AIDs (Armenicum), building an oil refinery in Zangezur, Dilijan becomes world financial centre, Jermuk becomes the regional turism centre. The construction of Iran - Yerevan railway is in progress.
Why not to conqure the space as well?
why not?
Կարեն Կարապետյան 10 weeks 4 days ago
I say to you - why not???
After all, it's good to be ambitious, no? ;)
After all, could Yerevan have been built from an insignificant provincial town with scattered neighbourhoods into a proper city in just 11 years without ambition and a bit of avant-garde audacity? Could the Opera house be built without a bit of ambition? And Hamalir? and Zvartnotz?
It was with the same ambition that students gathered together and with small 5 kopeyka donations from passerbyies on the street managed to gather enough money to build the Kukuruznik.
Armenia as we know it has been built by the spirit of progressivist ambition -- a spirit that faded away from early 90s onwards. To do the imposible, to outdo oneself and to emerge triamphant against all odds -- is that not the ultimate description of Armenian ethos?
And here's the nasty question: what was it that really drove people to Liberty Square in 1988 and 1989? was it the desire for "Liberty" (as neo-liberalist historians would like us to believe) or was it really the ambition to have an independent country and Artsakh? The ambition to conquer the impossible.
Nothing wrong with being ambitious
Ani 10 weeks 3 days ago
Dubai, for instance, is exceedingly ambitious, and the results are obvious. But the problem with these Armenian proposals is that they are floated without any way of understanding them or knowing whether they are real or pie-in-the-sky figments of somebody's imagination. Of those ventures Payqar mentioned, what's happened with them? It just starts looking like magical thinking, like saying something interesting without meaning it. And if there are some new developments, they should be reported as each development happens and not just presented after the fact.
For instance, here's an article from ArmeniaNow before the election, with all sorts of promises from Serge Sargsyan--how's that medicine and car plan coming along? Has anybody got their car and medicine yet (oligarchs and "false oppositionists" excepted...)
http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=2741
“Go Armenia”: PM for Pres offers a car in every family and medicine for all
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