OREANDA-NEWS. The National Complex of Heliophysics of the Russian Science Academy will be built by Shvabe holding company. Shvabe has won a tender and is now entitled to implement one of the largest projects in the modern history of projects of the Russian Science Academy estimated at more than 17 billion rubles.

Shvabe specialists will start implementing the project of establishing the National Complex of Heliophysics of the Russian Science Academy. Shvabe has won a tender held by the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics.

The Complex of Heliophysics will help follow processes happening in the near-Earth space environment and to study the effects the solar wind has on the magnetosphere and the ionosphere of the earth. The Complex will allow to study the physics and the structure of the upper atmosphere of the Earth.

Besides this project will allow to solve issues of fundamental science such as a better understanding of the nature of the sun’s corona warming up.

“Rostec will participate in the implementation of one of the largest projects in the modern history of projects of the Russian Science Academy”, said Sergey Chemezov, Rostec’s CEO.

According to Sergey Chemezov the National Complex of Heliophysics will allow to develop a whole range of branches of fundamental science. “Rostec’s enterprises have enough expertise as well as manufacturing capacities to reach this goal”, said Sergey Chemezov.

Heliy Zherebtsov, a counselor and current member of the Russian Science Academy said that owing to Shvabe that has got all leading optic enterprises of the country together and thanks to Rostec it was possible to win the tender on building the National Complex of Heliophysics of the Russian Science Academy.

According to Sergey Maksin, the CEO of Shvabe, the company will manufacture radars, cutting-edge optical and radio telescopes and other unique devices applied in the science of astronomy. Besides a whole necessary infrastructure should be built in order to implement the project.

Only the complete set of design documents is estimated at 865.6 rubles. The total cost of the project of the Russian Science Academy will exceed 17 billion rubles. The project is due by 2020.

The complex will consist of a telescope-coronagraph with a diameter of the main mirror of 3 – 4 meters, a multiwave radio heliograph and a system of radars. Also a mesostratospheric lidar (an optical radiometer) with a diameter of the main mirror of 2.6 meters, interferometers, spectrographs, photometers and a control center.

In the opinion of Sergey Potekhin, director of the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics and an associate member of the Russian Science Academy, this extremely complex and significant project will be possible to implement using joint efforts and in due time.

For the purpose of the successful implementation of the project the National Complex of Heliophysics of the Russian Science Academy and the Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics will examine the prospects of the cooperation between Russian and foreign companies both in the area of optics and radio astronomy.