Russian companies could deliver a full set of receiving and data storage equipment to receive, process and store the data from Earth remote sensing satellites, the official added.
"Roscosmos invites the South African Space Agency to consider the deployment of a Russian receiving station on the South African territory that would receive information from Russian and foreign Earth sensing satellites, including the ones that would appear in the future," Borisov stated at a meeting of the joint committee on space cooperation of the BRICS countries.
Russia could also modernize the already existing South African stations, which would make an additional contribution to the South African Space Agency's efforts to develop the ground-based space infrastructure of the BRICS countries, he mentioned.
Borisov also offered to provide access to national remote sensing data geoportals for ordering archival data for the development of a BRICS joint satellite cluster. At first, professionals could get access to this data by logging in to another country's geoportal, and later, a common portal interface could be arranged at a program level, the official explained.
"This will expand the range of potential users and contribute to the development of new technologies for processing and interpreting satellite observation results," Borisov said.
In addition, direct data transfer from cluster satellites to national receiving stations could be arranged to speed up the provision of images to consumers, according to the official.
The agreement on the creation of a joint satellite orbital cluster was signed by BRICS member states in 2021. The project includes five satellites, one from each of the member states: Russia's Kanopus-V, China's GF-6, India's Resourcesat-2/2A, South Africa's ZY-3/02 and Brazil's CBERS-04, which was built with the assistance of China.
In each of the countries, certain regions have been selected to be photographed by the devices from space. In Russia, this area is about 14,000 square kilometers (5,405 square miles) and is located in the Altai-Sayan region, in India, it is the Nilgiri biosphere reserve, in Brazil, the Matopiba region, and in China, Hainan Island. The BRICS member states exchange information obtained from the satellites and jointly process it.