About the centre

The Aerospace Centre was established by Order of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine No. 120 dated 16.02.2009 to conduct research and development, create globally competitive scientific and applied results, carry out innovative activities and provide conditions for advanced scientific and technical training.

Director of the Aerospace Centre – Volodymyr Kharchenko, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honoured Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine, Laureate of the State Prize of Ukraine, leading scientist in the field of aerospace informatics, made a significant contribution to the development of theoretical foundations and evaluation of the effectiveness of socio-technical systems and decision-making systems under conditions of uncertainty and risk, founder and head of the world-recognised scientific school ‘Aeronautics’.

Scientific supervisors in the following areas:

Vasyl Kondratiuk – coordinator, GNSS expert, PhD, senior researcher.

Valery Konin – expert in GNSS technologies, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Honoured Machine Builder of Ukraine.

Main tasks of the Aerospace Centre:

  • Organising and conducting fundamental, applied and experimental research and development aimed at implementing priority areas of science and technology development based on the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS technology).
  • Creation of navigation and traffic control systems and equipment.
  • Development of hardware and software for the implementation of special technologies based on GNSS, their differential additions and the latest information technologies.
  • Monitoring of the satellite radio navigation field of GPS, GLONASS, GALILEO, BEIDOU, EGNOS systems.
  • Provision of services to GNSS users using the DGPS/RTK mode in real time.
  • Provision of services to interested individuals, organisations, enterprises and institutions in solving current and future problems of creation, diagnostics and control of satellite navigation equipment and systems.

The main activities of the Aerospace Centre:

  • Forecasting the availability of satellite radio navigation systems in flight, take-off and landing conditions.
  • Interference immunity of satellite radio navigation systems.
  • Technologies for protecting objects from destruction means equipped with satellite navigation equipment.
  • Adaptive antenna systems for suppressing interference with satellite radio navigation systems.
  • Differential satellite navigation systems.
  • Algorithms for primary and secondary information processing in communication, navigation, and surveillance systems (CNS/ATM).
  • Autonomous control of the integrity of satellite on-board navigation equipment.
  • Control and management of vehicle traffic on the airport surface.
  • Real-time precision trajectory measurements based on differential satellite positioning systems.
  • Technological software for navigation receivers and control and correction stations.
  • Integrated information processing in aircraft navigation systems
    (GPS, EGNOS, GNSS + inertial system).
  • Creation and development of cognitive aerospace systems.
  • Research and implementation of tasks based on artificial intelligence.
  • Adaptive neural network control systems for dynamic objects.
  • Aerospace monitoring of objects and phenomena.