Since August 2017, the laboratory has started a new project within the program of the Union State of Russia and Belarus «Technology-US».

As a result of the competition, SPIIRAS was chosen as an implementer of the research part on the following topic: «Development of methodological issues and special software for ground and onboard functional modules in performance restoration managing in emergency and critical situations onboard the satellite».

State customer from Russia is Roscosmos. Direct customer is Space Systems Research and Development Institute (NII KS), Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center as in previous project – «Monitoring-US».

Within the new project the laboratory will continue to develop and implement model-algorithmic support for the structural and functional reconfiguration of advanced satellite on-board equipment.

From 15 to 17 May, 2017 the scientific-technical and educational seminar in the framework of InMotion project «Innovative strategies of teaching and training of future engineers with use of visual modeling environments and open-source software» was held at the University of Ljubljana. The seminar was attended by representatives of the University of Bremen (Germany), National University of Distance Education (Spain), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Universiti Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia), Institute of Technology PETRONAS (Malaysia), Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University, Novosibirsk State Technical University, St. Petersburg Insitute of Informatics and Automation RAS.

The interim results of the first stage of project implementation were summarized during the seminar. SPIIRAS participated as an industrial partner. Prof. Sokolov B.V. presented a progress report related to the involvement of academic, scientific and commercial organizations in the process of project implementation. In addition there were made proposals for the participation of SPIIRAS representatives in preparing a number of international publications on modeling issues which are planned to be published at the end of the project in 2019.

Deputy director of SPIIRAS, Head of LITSAM, Dr. Tech. Sci., Prof. Sokolov B.V. visited Volga State University of Technology in the framework of two joint projects of VSUT and SPIIRAS.

During the visit Prof. Sokolov B.V. performed number of meetings and open lectures for teachers, postgraduates and students of the University.