Sitronics: Satellite Constellation

2022: Satellite Constellation Launch Plan

The group expects to attract another 10 billion rubles through the mechanism of end-to-end projects, and to receive the rest of the funds from anchor customers, according to the project concept of May 16. The document was sent to the Ministry of Digital Science, - said the source.

The department confirmed that the project is "being worked out."

According to the Sitronics concept, satellites will perform tasks in the field of remote navigation, vessel navigation (AIS), the Internet of Things (IoT) and fire monitoring. It is planned to organize interaction with MTS. According to MTS representatives, the infrastructure of the group will consist of ground satellite communication stations and data centers connected by high-speed communication channels . Sitronics will provide services to corporate and state customers according to the service model.

Production is organized on the Industrial component base (qualification of equipment that has characteristics for operation at low and high temperatures can be used in low orbit - ed.) With replacement in the future with domestic. The source noted that Military and Space categories are required to work in high orbits, but microcircuits for them are noticeably more expensive: from $400 to $5 thousand. At the same time, the price of Industrial chips can be $3-4. " The source believes that the transition to the domestic component base is possible, but not earlier than in three to five years.

In the segment of DZZ, Sitronics will compete with Planet Labs (180 satellites), Maxar (90 satellites), Sentinel (40 satellites) and Roscosmos, which announced such functionality in the Sphere project. The latter involves the launch of 162 satellites. For its implementation, the budget for the implementation includes 21 billion rubles. until 2024, and the entire project is estimated at 180 billion rubles.

The Satellites company already has many years of experience in the space industry, so such private initiatives with the support of the state corporation can have a tangible effect and ensure the socio-economic and technological development of the state, "Roscosmos commented on the initiative.

The state corporation also told the news agency that building up the domestic satellite constellation is one of the key tasks of the Sphere project, which will provide services to state and commercial consumers.

In the Sphere project, two main areas are the creation of communication systems and DZZ systems. Moreover, the DZZ segment includes both high-detail and survey optical-electronic monitoring spacecraft and radar spacecraft for all-weather round-the-clock monitoring of the Earth's surface[1] to Roscosmos[2]

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