ASTANA (Sputnik) – Kazakhstan’s proposed amendments on space activity envisage using the country’s satellites to search for extremists and drugs, the deputy head of the country’s space agency said Thursday.
The lower house of the Kazakh parliament familiarized itself with the propositions earlier Thursday.
"Of course it is very hard to track specific people, but if the terrorists are using certain devices which are…over a meter in size, our satellite will be able to see it, it could be documented, and the relevant authorities will be able to analyze this information and forecast what is happening," Meyrbek Moldabekov told journalists.
Issues related to drug trafficking, such as information on the cultivation of illicit substances, would be passed on to the country’s Interior Ministry, according to Moldabekov.
Kazakhstan’s space agency KazCosmos was established in 2007. It primarily uses the Baikonur cosmodrome. Kazakhstan has launched three communications satellites.
