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2026: The government has allocated 5 billion rubles for the purchase of Earth remote sensing services
In 2026, the government Russia will allocate 5 billion rubles for the purchase of remote sensing (remote sensing) services from satellites for state needs. The funds are intended for 11 federal state customers. The decision was announced by the First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov at a meeting with the President Vladimir Putin on January 12, 2026.
According to the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy Denis Kravchenko, funding is provided for by the Ministry of Finance in amendments to the budget law. The main recipients will be the Ministry of Emergency Situations (4 billion rubles) and Rosreestr (416 million rubles).
From 2026, access of federal executive bodies to high-detail survey data from the federal DZZ fund will become paid. The system will work according to a new principle. The state corporation Roscosmos, for which the relevant powers are assigned by law, will form a data fund.
It will be filled with images both from state satellites and from the devices of private Russian and foreign operators. Priority will be given to domestic data. The purchase of information from private suppliers is aimed at maximizing business involvement in this area.
According to Nikolai Pozhidaev, general director of Sputnik Group of Companies, 5 billion rubles will cover the needs of federal and regional customers. Previously, the annual volume of the Russian DZZ market was estimated at 3.4 billion rubles.
Anton Alekseev, general director of the aerospace corporation New Space, called this amount the basic minimum for launching a new market model, the potential of which experts estimate from 50 to 500 billion rubles.
However, the general director of the Geospatial Agency, Innoteer Felix Fokin, points to organizational difficulties: customers do not understand whether they will be able to conduct independent tenders or should work exclusively through. " Roskosmos The choice of a single supplier for the purchase of foreign data creates sanctions risks and a threat to Russian distributors. There is also a danger of targeting the dumping prices of Chinese operators instead of taking into account the real cost of creating and operating domestic satellites.
According to Forbes, in November 2025, Roscosmos requested commercial proposals for the supply of data from foreign satellites from 11 Russian companies. The volume of this potential purchase is estimated from 300 million to 2.5 billion rubles.[1][2]
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Roscosmos was allowed to sell satellite images. The money will go to the development of the domestic satellite grouping
Funds received from individuals as a fee for the provision of images of remote sensing of the Earth (DZZ) will remain in the budget of Roscosmos and are aimed at the development of a domestic satellite group. This was announced in December 2025 in Roscosmos. The state corporation will be able to approve the methodology for determining the cost of the base unit when providing data from the Earth Remote Sensing Fund, determine the procedure and conditions for the state corporation to acquire data from non-state spacecraft for authorities of various levels.[3]
A free site with satellite images has been launched in Russia. It is replenished every day
On November 1, 2025, Satellites announced the launch of an open online platform with free access to satellite images of the Earth. Images of our planet are taken by survey technological cameras installed on spacecraft of the CubeSat type of various configurations. Read more here.
The law on paid images from space in Russia did not work 9 months after the start of the action
In early September 2025, it became known that the law on paid images of remote sensing of the Earth (DZZ), which was adopted in April 2024 and formally entered into force on January 1, 2025, did not work in Russia. Against this background, the departments continue to massively request free data from the DZZ.
According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Denis Kravchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy (United Russia), who previously served as First Deputy General Director of the United Rocket and Space Corporation (ORKK), spoke about the current situation.
Under the new rules, state bodies are required to buy images from space rather than receive them for free. Roscosmos has been identified as the main data provider of the DZZ. Images should come from Russian non-state spacecraft DZZ. To do this, between Russian Space Systems JSC (RKS, part of Roscosmos) and the operators of non-state satellites Citronics Space LLC (the current name of Sputnik Group of Companies) and MT-Lab LLC in 2024 it was supposed to conclude a state contract for the purchase of data from the DZZ. However, in fact, the paid model of obtaining images by government agencies does not work.
The problem, according to Kravchenko, is that for 2025 the budget does not include funds for paying for the relevant services. According to him, a number of large departments that are consumers of DZZ data are restructuring established processes. In addition, government agencies need to stipulate additional costs with the Ministry of Finance of Russia. In general, as noted by Vedomosti, after the adoption of the law, organizational confusion arose. It is expected that the funds for the purchase of data from the DZZ will be included in the budget for 2026.
 | The beginning of the functioning of this law will allow us to begin the formation of the DZZ market in our country, and this is very important, since this is an additional revenue base both for the Russian budget and indirectly for corporations, "Kravchenko notes.[4] |  |
2023: The volume of the Russian DZZ market grew by 21.5% to 25.6 billion rubles
At the end of 2023, the volume of the domestic remote sensing (remote sensing) market Lands reached 25.6 billion, rubles having increased 1.6 times compared to 2019 or by 21.5% compared to the same indicator in 2022. There are more than 200 companies on the market offering DZZ products and services. Such data TAdviser from November 2024 were shared by representatives of a private aerospace holding. SR Space
In terms of dynamics, the DZZ market is comparable to the average annual growth rate of the Russian economy, but lags behind many related industries growing at an accelerated pace: IT, UAV, engineering and engineering design.
According to experts, although this market is only 10% mastered, its potential is an order of magnitude higher than current indicators. Thus, the total volume of sales to all potential users (TAM) is almost 250 billion rubles, that is, the market can grow 10 times, calculated in SR Space. With continued growth rates by 2030, the market may grow 2-4 times.
Unmanned aerial photography is the leader in the Russian DZZ market, which accounts for more than 60% of sales and most companies. However, the development of the space data segment is lagging behind the market, making it difficult to meet the demand for high-quality satellite imagery. At the same time, demand exceeds supply: absolutely all Russian users use satellite images, although half combine them with unmanned aerial data. Russian companies will have to solve the issues of creating infrastructure and increasing the frequency of shooting in order to compensate for the shortage of quality data that has intensified after the departure of foreign suppliers, the SR Space report says.
The leadership of drones is observed in segments with less added value - data collection and processing, with most analytical services using space imagery. Manned shooting companies account for about a third of the total market. Water DZZ systems in Russia are developed by only 5 companies, while half of the product is at the prototype stage.
The vast majority (92%) of users in Russia use raw data from DZZ, and a third do not even combine them with data analysis, processing and visualization services. Such a skew, according to SR Space experts, is probably due to the fact that the Russian market is dominated by "professional" users - specialists GIS, IT developers, cartographers.
Raw data also account for more than half of the total number of companies and sales in the Russian DZZ market. Data collection companies prevail, either as producers or as operators. All existing government support tools are also focused on supporting the development of the data segment.
The Services segment is still dominated by relatively simple data processing solutions, although analytical service providers are growing at an accelerated pace. As a result, the market structure, although slowly, is changing towards products with higher added value, the SR Space report notes.
Most of the products and services in the DZZ market are cross-industry, although gradually the share of companies with industry specialization is growing (twice over the past 5 years).
The industry structure of the Russian DZZ market differs from the global one. Almost half of sales are in agriculture. In addition to rural, the top five industries also included forestry (in second place), which is associated with the specifics of Russia and the large area of forest territories. In the world, this industry accounts for only 6% of the market. There is a shortage of specialized DZZ solutions for financial and insurance companies and city management (despite the formal leadership of the latter in terms of sales).
Despite the positive outlook, the researchers identified several barriers holding back market growth. Among them are the high cost of data and the lack of qualified specialists who can integrate remote control solutions into business processes. There is also a shortage of "ready-made" customers who can effectively use the capabilities of DZZ.
Among other significant barriers to the development of the DZZ market in Russia, the following stand out:
- low level of competition and monopoly of Roscosmos;
- lack of own DZZ satellites: high resolution, with high frequency of shooting and coverage;
- unfinished marketing strategy for companies operating in the DZZ market, lack of targeted marketing tied to business functions;
- narrow perception of the client base - only specialists who know how to work with data from the remote control;
- unresolved legal issues in terms of confidentiality of data of the FAR.
The study showed that despite the active stimulation of offers, the demand for data and DZZ services is poorly supported. Government measures are aimed at developing data collection infrastructure, and demand generation is mainly supported only in the segment of unmanned systems.
| | "National projects contribute to the creation and development of their own tools for collecting data from DZZ (satellites and UAVs) and, as a result, sufficient data with high resolution and refresh rates to meet current and generate new demand. The course towards accelerated digitalization of business and the public sector stimulates the demand for building big data systems, including geospatial, as well as the development of individual industry GIS systems as effective management tools, "the report says. | |
Companies operating in the DZZ market have already felt growing interest from startups and corporations actively supported by major players and universities. As of November 2024, the share of startups in the Russian DZZ market increased 3.5 times compared to 2019, and the average annual growth rate is more than four times higher than the average market, which emphasizes the high importance of the sector for the national economy.
65% of respondents pay for DZZ data, but only about 8% use exclusively paid sources, for example, buy data directly from satellite operators or on data marketplaces. Only 29% of organizations have a separate budget for DZZ, on average it is 750-800 thousand rubles a year. At the same time, 34% of respondents use exclusively free data.
Russian venture investors are minimally invested in DZZ technologies. So, according to SR Space, since 2017, investors have entered into 11 transactions totaling $11.6 million, which is thousandth of the all-Russian venture capital market. At the same time, corporate players are most active, preferring UAV developers and products based on unmanned aerial data to solve specific industry problems, for example, construction monitoring.
According to SR Space estimates, the current structure of the Russian DZZ market is significantly different from the global one in the value chain. Therefore, in the short term (3-5 years), according to experts, we should expect the development of segments with more added value. The growth of the DZZ market will be provided by specialized industry analytics and solutions based on artificial intelligence (AI):
- Insights-as-a-Service platforms - allow you to solve specific industry problems, increase the efficiency of business processes taking into account the peculiarities of a particular industry (for example, effectively introduce fertilizers, track illegal felling or issue loans). Designed for analysts, managers and executives without special technical skills, so they are easier to scale. Using such services, the user often does not realize that the database data is based on.
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning will be used not only for the purposes of analyzing and automatically detecting objects of different types, but also to improve the quality of the data collected, create sets of synthetic data, and on-board calculations.
In the next 3-5 years, these areas will be key for business, providing Russian companies with the opportunity to catch up with international analogues in terms of analytical services and make access to DZZ more massive, according to SR Space.
In turn, hardver solutions are weaker in the Russian market, which, according to SR Space, is due to their technological complexity, high production and implementation costs. However, given the global trends, the following are promising in the long term (5-10 years):
- New types of sensors and payload systems for satellites, UAVs, aircraft. The most popular are ultra-high resolution optical systems, radar systems and lidars.
- Compute processors capable of processing data on board a spacecraft or other aircraft.
For more information on the results of the SR Space study, see the link.
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