KIEV, June 16 – Dnipropetrovsk-based state-run Pivdenne design bureau is in talks with European companies on the development of partnerships, and has linked the scale of the presence of Ukrainian rocket and space enterprises on the EU market with Ukraine's membership of the European Space Agency.

Pivdenne design bureau Director General Oleksandr Dehtiariov said that there are limits on the participation of the Ukrainian rocket and space sector in European space projects.