Reshetnev and FSUE "Space Communications" signed contracts for 65.95 billion rubles. for the creation of telecom satellites
| Customers: Russian Satellite Communications Company Moscow; Telecommunications and Communications Project date: 2025/12
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On December 26, 2025, Reshetnev JSC, owned by Roskosmos, and FSUE Cosmic Communications (GPKS) signed contracts for the creation of four Express telecommunication satellites. The total value of the contracts is 65.95 billion rubles.
The general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Bakanov said that the signing of the agreements opens the first stage of important work. He stressed that satellites provide tens of millions of users in the country with satellite television and the Internet, communication for aviation and maritime transport, and also solve other telecommunication problems.
 | "Roscosmos sets the task of producing devices of the highest quality and in strict accordance with the deadlines established in the contracts," added Dmitry Bakanov. |  |
The head of Space Communications JSC Alexei Volin called the order a record.
| | Next in line are three more contests for three devices, and one satellite [Express-AMU4]... is in production. Thus, we are talking about the creation in the next five years of a whole coherent space flotilla of eight satellites, - said Alexey Volin. | |
He described the task as large-scale and ambitious, noting that there are few enterprises in the world that can cope with it.
The satellites Express-AMU6, Express-40, Express-AMU51 and Express-AMU52 should be manufactured by the end of 2029. According to Dmitry Bakanov, the estimated service life of each device in orbit is 15 years.
The creation of satellites is being implemented within the framework of the Federal Project "Infrastructure for Access to the Information and Telecommunication Network" Internet "of the National Project" Data Economics and Digital Transformation of the State. " The launch of vehicles into orbit by Proton-M launch vehicles with Briz-M acceleration units is provided for by the Federal Project "Satellite Communications and Earth Observation" of the National Project "Cosmos[1]
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