State Space Agency of Ukraine: History of the Development of Normative Base

Abstract

Space research is carried out in many countries. However, correct organization of this activity requires proper state regulation. In the paper, the authors reviewed the history of the creation of the normative base of the space agency of Ukraine. The study of documents that define and determined regulatory regulation of the organization of space activities in Ukraine allowed the authors to follow, on the one hand, the formation of the space industry of independent Ukraine, on the other — to identify the causes of the decline of the once leading in the USSR space industry. Independent Ukraine became the successor of most of the scientific developments, intellectual potential and industrial assets of the space industry of the USSR. However, it failed to take advantage of the potential that she got

Keywords

• space activities
• central executive authorities
• ukraine space agency
• space industry