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       15 марта 2022 г. опубликован сборник Института ООН по исследованию проблем разоружения (UNIDIR) ？Exploring Options for Missile Verification？ (Исследуя варианты верификации ракет), в который включена глава ？Space launch vehicles and ballistic missiles？ (Ракеты космического назначения и баллистические ракеты), одним из авторов которой выступил научный сотрудник Сектора военной экономики и инноваций Отдела военно-экономических исследований безопасности Центра международной безопасности ИМЭМО РАН Дмитрий Стефанович.

       "Distinguishing between space launch vehicle and ballistic missile programmes is extremely difficult in a non-cooperative environment. Even if it can be achieved, a lot of dual-use technologies, including those technologies used for guidance, telemetry acquisition, tracking, payload separation, atmospheric re-entry, will be developed during the course of any space programme. These technologies could have real value for ballistic missile projects. While it is hard (and ineffective) to convert a space launch vehicle into a ballistic missile directly, the technologies used are essentially very similar.

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       It is, however, important to recognize that some states would be willing to make a commitment not to develop ballistic missiles while they are pursuing a space launch capability. If this commitment were to be made, there is a range of steps, undertaken voluntarily or as a part of a formal legally binding arrangement, that could provide confidence in the absence of a military dimension of a space programme."