Collaborations Broaden, Developments Begin

2017 marked multiple milestones.

  • ACCIMT signed an MoU with ROSCOSMOS, the Russian Space Agency, on space cooperation.
  • A subsequent MoA with Samara National Research University (formerly SSAU) provided specialized space-engineering training for 17 engineers from ACCIMT, the University of Peradeniya, and the University of Moratuwa.
  • A Cooperative Research Agreement was signed with Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech), Japan, under which ACCIMT embarked on developing Sri Lanka’s first 1U nano-satellite, later named RAAVANA-1.

MoU with ROSCOSMOS

Eng. (Dr.) Sanath Panawennage, Director-General & CEO, Prof Kemal Deen, Chairman, and Dr. Sergei Saveleyev Deputy-Director-General for International Cooperation, ROSCOSMOS signing the MoU, at ROSCOSMOS, Moscow, in March 2017.

MoA with Samara National Research University (SNRU)

Eng. (Dr.) Sanath Panawennage, Director-General & CEO, ACCIMT, and Prof. Dr. Evgeniy V. Shakhmatov, Rector of Samara National Research University, signing the MoA at SNRU, Samara, Russian Federation, in March 2017.

Collaboration with Kyutech

Initial agreement in principle on ACCIMT-Kyutech Collaboration reached at a discussion on the sidelines of the International Astronautical Congress held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in Sept 2016, between Prof Mengu Cho, Director, Laboratory of Lean Satellite Enterprises and In-Orbit Experiments, and Prof George Meida, of Kyushu Institute of Technology, and Eng. (Dr.) Sanath Panawennage, Director-General & CEO, ACCIMT. On the extreme left is Werner Balogh from UNOOSA, which later contributed to the collaborative project.

Space Engineering Training at Samara University, Russia

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