Alone in the field is not a warrior: at Kazan Digital Week, General Director of RSCC Alexey Volin spoke about the need for cooperation in creating of domestic communication and broadcasting satellites

Over the next 10 years, satellite communications through industries dependent on it will bring about 600 billion rubles to the economy. However, without timely updating of spacecraft in strategically important orbital positions, annual losses will amount to 100-150 billion rubles. Therefore, it is critically important to maintain domestic satellite constellations in all orbits in an up-to-date, working condition. Alexey Volin, General Director of RSCC, spoke about plans to upgrade promising telecommunications satellites at the round table "Business above the Earth: new capacities for the implementation of advanced aerospace systems projects". The event took place within the framework of the international forum Kazan Digital Week 2024, which takes place from September 9 to 11 in Kazan.

‘By 2030, 10 communication and broadcasting satellites in GEO will have to be updated – two Gazprom Space Systems spacecraft and eight RSCC spacecraft. In addition, there are plans for a large LEO constellation of BUREAU 1440, which will include more than a hundred satellites, as well as updated Gonets, Skif and Marathon spacecraft, and a large number of projects in remote sensing. This is a huge amount of what needs to be produced,’ Alexey Volin noted, adding that it is also impossible to do without satellite communications: this is a matter of the country's survival.

Satellites provide communications for 80% of Russia's territory and, most importantly, the Arctic and the Northern Sea Route. Without them, it is impossible to provide communication and Internet to sailors on 1.5 thousand ships, crews and passengers of aircraft. With the help of satellites, digital terrestrial television is broadcast throughout the country, satellite TV for 15 million subscribers, regional tie-ins on RTR and OTR are carried out, redundancy during emergencies, etc.

‘Over the next 10 years, over 300 billion rubles will be invested in the creation of satellites. However, no company can handle production of this scale alone, it is necessary to build cooperation. Everyone understands this, so we are already seeing how various cooperative chains are being built, and a ground for healthy competition is emerging,’ he added.

The event was also attended by Dmitry Sevastyanov, General Director of Gazprom Space Systems JSC, Sergey Masalov, First Deputy General Director of Gazprom AIT Facility LLC, Denis Kravchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy of the Federal Assembly of the Russia, Andrey Trushkin, Deputy Director of the Center for Digitalization of Roscosmos GC, Chief Designer of Gazprom AIT Facility LLC Andrey Yakovlev, Director of IMET RAS Vladimir Komlev, Acting General Director of NIIR Oleg Ivanov, Ilya Yudin, Deputy General Director for Business Development of MT-Lab LLC, Vladislav Ivanenko, General Director of Sputnix LLC, Yuri Vilkov, Deputy General Director for Development and Innovation of RESHETNEV JSC, Vladimir Lazutin, Secretary of the Scientific and Technical Council of Gazprom Space Systems JSC, Alexander Vedekhin, Acting Director of the Department of State Youth Policy and Educational Activities of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.