2015) Liubomyr Sabadosh (August 19, 2015 - July 22, 2016) Oleksandr Holub (July 25 - September 13, 2016) Yuriy Radchenko (interim) (September 14, 2016 – August 31, 2017) Pavlo Dehtyarenko (August 31, 2017 – November 3, 2019) Volodymyr Mikheev (interim) (November 3, 2019 – January 24, 2020) Volodymyr Usov (January 24 - November 16, 2020) Mykhailo Lev (interim) (since November 16, 2020) See also Lviv Centre of Institute for Space Research A Message From Earth (AMFE) was sent by NSAU towards Gliese 581 c, a large terrestrial extrasolar planet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581. The signal is a digital time capsule containing 501 messages. List of government space agencies Ukrainian Optical Facilities for Near-Earth Space Surveillance Network References External links English-language home page Ukrainian space history on Astronautix.com encyclopedia Ukraine's Space Program - article in Moscow Defense Brief NASA, Ukraine Prepare Flights to Moon, RedNova News Ukrainian Rockets to Orbit U.S. Satellites, Novosti Yuzhnoe SDO, major Ukrainian Space Technologies Design Bureau Cosmos Agency — first private Ukrainian aerospace company Ukraine Ukrainian space institutions Independent agencies of the Ukrainian government Defense industry of Ukraine