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Space program overview Mongolia, in 1 edition.

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  • has a space program dating back to the country’s ties to the Soviet Union;
  • modern day program focused on acquiring and manufacturing satellites;
  • operates satellites and jointly builds them with foreign partners;
  • developing capabilities to independently manufacture satellites with communications and remote sensing (RS) payloads;
  • has a national strategy to acquire digital communications satellites and make use of RS satellite imagery data for economic development, environmental monitoring, natural disaster response, security, and weather forecasting;
  • the strategy also includes promoting Mongolia’s domestic space industry and international cooperation in space technologies;
  • has relations or cooperation agreements with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, France, India, Japan, Russia, and the US (2023)

note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in Appendix S

has a space program dating back to the country’s ties to the Soviet Union; modern day program focused on acquiring and manufacturing satellites; operates satellites and jointly builds them with foreign partners; developing capabilities to independently manufacture satellites with communications and remote sensing (RS) payloads; has a national strategy to acquire digital communications satellites and make use of RS satellite imagery data for economic development, environmental monitoring, natural disaster response, security, and weather forecasting; the strategy also includes promoting Mongolia’s domestic space industry and international cooperation in space technologies; has relations or cooperation agreements with a variety of foreign space agencies and industries, including those of China, France, India, Japan, Russia, and the US (2023)
note: further details about the key activities, programs, and milestones of the country’s space program, as well as government spending estimates on the space sector, appear in Appendix S

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Central Intelligence Agency. “Mongolia: Space program overview.” The World Factbook, 2023–2023 editions. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/mongolia/space-program-overview.

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