Satellite Communications (Russian Market)
Main article: Satellite communication (Russian market)
2024
The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has pledged 100 billion rubles for the launch of satellite Internet
A key priority of the new national project "Data Economics and Digital Transformation of the State" is the creation of a low-orbit satellite constellation to provide high-speed Internet access. Within the framework of this program, the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation intends to allocate more than 100 billion rubles to compensate rates on preferential loans and finance launches. The department announced this on October 21, 2024. Read more here.
Glonass and Gazprom Space Systems began to create a competitor to Starlink. It will take ₽150 billion
Glonass JSC and Gazprom Space Systems (Group of company Systematica) in October 2024 announced the start of a joint project to create a low-orbit satellite constellation. The corresponding agreement was signed in St. Petersburg. According to experts interviewed by Vedomosti, the project may require about ₽150 billion. Read more here.
72 billion rubles for 3 years were allocated for the development of satellite Internet in Russia
More than 72 billion rubles will be allocated for the implementation of the federal project "Infrastructure for access to the information and telecommunication Internet network" within three years. This is stated in an explanatory note to the bill on the federal budget for 2025 and for the planning period 2026-2027, which was submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on September 30, 2024.
According to the Minister of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, the funds are planned to be directed to two main tasks. The first is to provide concessional lending to the production of spacecraft, which will form the basis of a low-orbit satellite constellation to provide Internet access. The second task is the actual launch of these devices and their launch into orbit.
The published document says that 3.85 billion rubles are provided for the implementation of initiatives aimed at creating a low-orbit satellite constellation of broadband data transmission by providing concessional lending to Bureau 1440 LLC in 2025, 6.73 billion rubles in 2026, and 6.73 billion rubles in 2027. 943.1 million rubles in 2025, 5.52 billion rubles in 2026 and 5.39 billion rubles in 2027 are allocated for state support "Bureau 1440" in order to ensure satellite launches. The costs of providing launch equipment for spacecraft launches are estimated at 18.51 billion, 15.6 billion and 9.43 billion rubles, respectively.
 | In total, by 2027, 292 devices will operate in low orbits, which will ensure the availability of high-speed and cheap Internet in our country and in the whole world. This will allow us to completely close the issue of ensuring high-speed and, most importantly, cheap Internet in all corners of our country, "Shadayev said.[1] |  |
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin: By 2027, Russia will launch 300 satellites for fast Internet
Russia plans to create a large-scale low-orbit satellite constellation to provide high-speed access to the Internet to throughout the country and in friendly states. This was announced on October 1, 2024 by the Prime Minister, Mikhail Mishustin announcing his intention to launch about 300 spacecraft by the end of 2027.
According to TASS, the creation of its own space group is one of the key tasks of the national project "Data Economics and Digital Transformation of the State." This project is aimed at achieving the goals of the digital transformation of Russia for the next 12 years.
Mishustin noted the successful development of the production of the necessary satellites. In 2023 and May 2024, trial launches of the devices were carried out. Successfully tested the system of laser communication and data transmission between satellites at speeds up to 10 Gbps at a distance of 1000 km. The operability of the measuring complex and navigation equipment was also confirmed.
ComNews The experts interviewed by the publication assess the government's plans as ambitious, but feasible. SR Space Sergey Mardanov, Deputy General Director for Business Development of the company, identifies three key tasks for the implementation of the project: ensuring funding, creating the devices themselves and supporting the launch vehicles states.
However, there are also potential problems. Valentin Anpilogov, Deputy General Director of Visat-Tel JSC, draws attention to the high cost of ground terminals, which can reach ₽1 million with a constellation of 300 satellites. Sergey Pekhterev, a shareholder of KA-Internet JSC, recalls the need to regularly replace satellites every 5-8 years due to the impact of atmospheric remnants in low orbits.[2][3]
445 billion rubles were allocated for the creation of the satellite Internet "Bureau 1440"
The Russian space company Bureau 1440 plans to create a national satellite constellation to provide high-speed Internet, and this project will require ₽445 billion by 2030. This became known in September 2024. This amount was indicated in the project "Internet Access Infrastructure," which is being developed as part of the national program "Data Economics."
As RBC writes with reference to this document, by 2030 it is planned to deploy a constellation consisting of 292 satellites. In total, 383 satellites will be launched during this period, including devices designed to replace the failed ones. The implementation of this project will require 24 missile launches. Of the total amount, about ₽329 billion will be allocated by the company itself, and the remaining ₽116 billion will come from the federal budget in the form of preferential loans, subsidies for rocket launches and for launching satellites into orbit.
The goal of the project is to provide broadband Internet access for 97% of households by 2030 and 99% by 2036. To achieve this goal, a low-orbit satellite constellation will be created, which will allow providing communication services throughout Russia and beyond.
A spokesman for Bureau 1440 declined to comment on the details of the project, but noted that the company plans to provide communication services through its own satellites.
| | We are at the stage of preparation for scaling the grouping and working out the technical and economic conditions for connecting to the future service, "he told the publication in mid-September 2024. | |
Within the framework of the project, as noted by the representative of the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko, the parameters for the implementation of satellite Internet by September 2024 are still being discussed and can be finalized before the project is finally approved. The Ministry of Digital Development of Russia also stressed the importance of developing satellite communications as one of the priority areas of the near future.[4]
According to experts interviewed by the publication, the conflict in Ukraine became the catalyst for the project, when, against the background of the use of Starlink for military purposes, the need for such a national system became obvious.
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to allocate 116 billion rubles for the development of satellite Internet
Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to allocate 116 billion rubles for the development of satellite Internet in the country. This was reported in the list of instructions published at the end of March 2024, which the head of state gave following the message to the Federal Assembly.
| | To send in 2025-2030 budget allocations of the federal budget in the amount of at least 116 billion rubles for the creation of a satellite constellation for the development of high-speed access to the Internet information and telecommunication network, "the Kremlin website said. | |
Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has been appointed responsible for the implementation of this order. The head of state is waiting for the corresponding report until December 15, 2024, then - once a year.
At the end of February 2024, Vladimir Putin said that access to high-speed Internet should be provided almost throughout the country. Putin stressed that the state will solve the task with the help of a multiple increase in the domestic satellite constellation.
According to ComNews CEO Leonid Konik, Russia really needs new satellite constellations in non-geostationary orbits, in the world such constellations as Starlink and OneWeb are at the peak of popularity. The expert noted that by March 2024 in the Russian Federation there is not a single state project on low-orbital grouping for Internet services, but there is a private initiative called Rassvet from Bureau 1440, potentially interested in state support. According to Konik's estimates, the real full costs of Bureau 1440 should be at least $7 billion. The declared 116 billion rubles will be enough for 20% of the co-financing of the Rassvet project, the expert added in a conversation with Vedomosti.
The general director of the hosting provider RUVDSNikita Tsaplin believes that Russia may have enough from 100 to 600 spacecraft for the normal operation of the new satellite Internet.[5]
2022
Private Russian company SR Space creates a satellite Internet system
In mid-November 2022, the company SR Space announced the creation of the SR NET satellite system, which, according to the developers, should become the first private Russian analogue. the American Starlink More. here
30.5 billion rubles are allocated from the budget for satellite Internet in Russia
On January 25, 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko announced that about 30.5 billion rubles were allocated from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) for a project to provide citizens and enterprises with satellite Internet.
We are talking about the federal project "Providing Internet access through the development of satellite communications" ("Internet Access"), which is planned to be included in the national program. " Digital economy As clarifies Interfax"" with reference to the passport of this project, by the end of 2024, a total of 63.86 billion rubles may be required for its implementation, including 33.38 billion rubles from the federal budget and 30.48 billion rubles from extrabudgetary sources.
As a result, it is planned to provide coverage of the territories of the Arctic zone and the Far East with satellite communications by 2024, and to provide citizens with Internet access in hard-to-reach areas by 2030.
According to the project passport, it will be implemented by FSUE Cosmic Communications (GPKS). The project involves the creation by 2024 and the launch in 2025 of one communications and broadcasting satellite in the Express geostationary orbit and 4 communications and broadcasting satellites in the Express-RV highly elliptical orbits. In addition, it is planned to produce another 8 Express satellites. As follows from the document, GPKS is planned to provide a subsidy for Express-RV satellites.
| | The goal of the Internet Access initiative is to create satellite communications to provide citizens with broadband access to the Internet in remote and hard-to-reach settlements of the country, Dmitry Chernyshenko told the agency in the apparatus. | |
By January 2022, the passport of the federal project "Internet Access" was approved by the Presidium of the Legal Commission for Digital Development, chaired by Dmitry Chernyshenko.[6]
2021: Mishustin allocated 60.8 billion rubles for cheap satellite Internet in villages
On July 21, 2021, the head of the Government of the RFMikhail Mishustin approved the allocation of 60.8 billion rubles from the National Welfare Fund (NWF) for the implementation of the Internet Access program, which the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation is developing. It consists in creating a satellite constellation of four spacecraft that will provide cheap Internet in separated and inaccessible regions, including the northern regions, the Arctic coast and the Northern Sea Route.
It is reported by Kommersant"" with reference to a source Government of the Russian Federation in and a representative. The publication Ministry of Digital Development Ministry of Finance confirmed that additional funding will be allocated "to ensure a number of self-sustaining infrastructure projects, including Internet Access."
The office of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko clarified to the newspaper that it is planned to create a satellite constellation by 2028. The tariffs were not reported there, adding that the quality and accessibility of the Internet for citizens will be a priority.
Earlier it was reported that the implementation of the Internet Access project will cost 151 billion rubles. A Kommersant source in the telecommunications industry called this amount too low. As an example, the interlocutor cited the cost of launching the Starlink satellite constellation, which amounted to $3 billion (about 225 billion rubles). And this does not take into account the costs of production, configuration, earth stations and others. Experts and market participants interviewed by the publication believe that the new project is more focused on providing communication to state institutions, not the population.
According to Sergey Pekhterev, General Director of AltegroSky, Internet Access can work on Express-RV satellites (their design was started by FSUE Cosmic Communications back in 2010) or Skif[7]
Notes
- ↑ 457 billion rubles will be spent on the national project "Data Economics" from 2025 to 2027
- ↑ Mishustin: future constellation of satellites will provide fast Internet in the Russian Federation
- ↑ 300 satellites will be needed for fast Internet
- ↑ The creation of the Russian analogue of Starlink was estimated at almost ₽445 billion
- ↑ List of instructions for the implementation of the President's Address to the Federal Assembly
- ↑ 30.5 billion rubles will be allocated from the NWF. To provide Internet access through satellite communications
- ↑ "Internet access" gained access to money. The satellite project of the Ministry of Digital Development increased funding
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