Conclusion So, dear readers, you have turned the last page of the book.... We hope that despite the various technical approaches and styles of the materials you have enjoyed the book. In this book we have been trying to prove that contemporary humanity needs to look beyond its own internal issues of survival in this so unusual and speedy 21st century and create mechanisms for the sustainable development of humanity as a whole. One of them (according to the point of view of the authors’ and their supporters around the World) is the IGMASS Project. For more than 3 years since its appearance, IGMASS has evolved from a conceptual idea, presented in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) in 2007 to a full-scale international project, supported by the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). In 2008, at a meeting in Glasgow city the IGMASS project was for the first time formally presented to management and leading scientists of IAA as a promising design, which required strong and comprehensive interstate support. In 2009, at the next summit of the Academy in Paris, the IGMASS Project Manager from IAA was officially appointed and a working (study) group of experts from 12 countries was formed to assess the level of IGMASS development prospects. In autumn of the same year (2009), the results of the group were formally unveiled at the IAA Summit in Daejon (South Korea). The Group resolution recognized IGMASS as a system capable of being built in the future, and recommended that the IAA “...ask the UN and its core committees, departments, and programs to examine key aspects of the proposed creation and utilization of the system in the interest of the whole international society, to realize the proposed project in the frame of UN programs, and to submit it for examination by concerned UN committees and commissions” (Figs. C1 and C2). The IGMASS concept was officially approved and supported by the participants of the First International Specialized symposium “Space and Global Security of Humanity” held in Limassol, Cyprus, on November 2–4, 2009. This representative scientific forum became the first stage in practical promotion of the initiative, which enjoyed active support from the IAA. The initiative passed a preliminary multistage scientific approbation at a series of international events and was approved by distinguished scientists and experts from leading space institutions, including the heads of four national space agencies. Information and organization supporting the IGMASS project is provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency and the ZNANIE International Association, which enjoys a general consultative status in V.A. Menshikov et al., Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management, DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-0810-9, # Springer-Verlag/Wien 2012 313
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Conclusion
So, dear readers, you have turned the last page of the book. . .. We hope that despite
the various technical approaches and styles of the materials you have enjoyed the
book. In this book we have been trying to prove that contemporary humanity needs
to look beyond its own internal issues of survival in this so unusual and speedy 21st
century and create mechanisms for the sustainable development of humanity as a
whole. One of them (according to the point of view of the authors’ and their
supporters around the World) is the IGMASS Project.
For more than 3 years since its appearance, IGMASS has evolved from a
conceptual idea, presented in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine) in 2007 to a full-scale
international project, supported by the International Academy of Astronautics
(IAA). In 2008, at a meeting in Glasgow city the IGMASS project was for the
first time formally presented to management and leading scientists of IAA as a
promising design, which required strong and comprehensive interstate support. In
2009, at the next summit of the Academy in Paris, the IGMASS Project Manager
from IAA was officially appointed and a working (study) group of experts from
12 countries was formed to assess the level of IGMASS development prospects.
In autumn of the same year (2009), the results of the group were formally unveiled
at the IAA Summit in Daejon (South Korea). The Group resolution recognized
IGMASS as a system capable of being built in the future, and recommended that
the IAA “. . .ask the UN and its core committees, departments, and programs
to examine key aspects of the proposed creation and utilization of the system in
the interest of the whole international society, to realize the proposed project in the
frame of UN programs, and to submit it for examination by concerned UN
committees and commissions” (Figs. C1 and C2).
The IGMASS concept was officially approved and supported by the participants
of the First International Specialized symposium “Space and Global Security of
Humanity” held in Limassol, Cyprus, on November 2–4, 2009. This representative
scientific forum became the first stage in practical promotion of the initiative, which
enjoyed active support from the IAA. The initiative passed a preliminary multistage
scientific approbation at a series of international events and was approved by
distinguished scientists and experts from leading space institutions, including the
heads of four national space agencies. Information and organization supporting
the IGMASS project is provided by the Russian Federal Space Agency and the
ZNANIE International Association, which enjoys a general consultative status in
V.A. Menshikov et al., Global Aerospace Monitoring and Disaster Management,DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-0810-9, # Springer-Verlag/Wien 2012
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ECOSOC and UNIDO. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
provides political support to the Project according to Russian foreign policy
guidelines to promote the development of international cooperation in peaceful
space exploration for global security and sustainable development (Fig. C3).
Fig. C1 Main steps of the IGMASS project’s promotion
Fig. C2 Participants of the first international specialized symposium “Space and Global Security
of Humanity,” Limassol, Cyprus, November 2–4, 2009
314 Conclusion
Over a period of 2 years, work to initiate the IGMASS Project achieved several
major results: broad scientific and theoretical research has been carried out and
involved foreign experts; the project was actively and rather successfully presented
at the international level; full-scale R&D to create the multifunctional system of the
Union State of Russia and Belarus as a prototype of key system segments was
launched; small and microsatellites for the IGMASS orbital constellation were
designed and the deployment of a specialized system of ground infrastructure for
IGMASS to receive and process monitoring information from satellites started.
On the UN level IGMASS was first officially presented at the 47th session of the
Scientific and Technical subcommittee of the United Nations on the Peaceful
Uses of Outer Space held in Vienna on February 8–19, 2010 (UN document
A/AC.105/958 of 11.03.2010). The session drew the attention of the world com-
munity to the IGMASS project, as well as prospects for cooperation in its imple-
mentation under the aegis of the United Nations and its involved institutions. There
took place, in particular, a number of meetings and consultations with the leader-
ship of UN-OOSA, GEOSS, ISPRS, as well as experts from the countries of all
continents. Many of them at that time expressed readiness to join the “International
Committee of the IGMASS Project Implementation” (ICPI), which had been
established along with the adoption of a technical concept for the project at the
Fig. C3 The first presentation of the IGMASS project on UN level: 47th session of the scientific
and technical subcommittee of the United Nations on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
(COPUOS), Vienna, Austria, February 8–19, 2010
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Second Specialized International Symposium “Space and Global Security of
Humanity” in Riga (Latvia) and Stockholm (Sweden), on July 5–9, 2010. Besides
the creation of the IGMASS Committee and the discussions of the special taskforce
“research on elimination of natural calamity and disaster aftermath,” the agenda of
the 3-day symposium in Riga and Stockholm also included political, legal, organi-
zational, and technical issues of project implementation and potential growth of the
number of its member-states (Figs. C4 and C5).
Fig. C4 Presidium of the second international specialized symposium “Space and Global Security
of Humanity,” Riga, Latvia, July 5–7, 2010
Fig. C5 The first ICPI working session adopted some statutory documents for IGMASS project