Company "Information Satellite Systems" named after Academician M.F. Reshetneva (part of the State Corporation "Roscosmos") began to create a space complex for the satellite communication system "Express-RV", which is part of the federal project "Sphere".
The Express-RV space complex will include four spacecraft of the same name in a highly elliptical orbit, designed to organize fixed and mobile communications services. They will be equipped to operate in the C-, Ku- and L-bands and have a 10-year guaranteed active life.
The orbital constellation of the Express-RV system will ensure the provision of communication services, including broadband Internet access, throughout Russia and the Arctic Ocean.
The launch of the first Express-RV spacecraft is planned for October 2025, and the deployment of the full orbital constellation is scheduled for 2026. The federal project "Sphere" includes five satellite constellations of communications and five satellite constellations of remote sensing of the Earth.
Earlier, the Director General of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, stated that the creation of Express-RV broadband Internet satellites in a highly elliptical orbit would begin before the end of April 2022: “We plan to launch work on creating a system of at least four Express-RV satellites “. They will fly in a highly elliptical orbit and create a mode of broadband Internet access for the Russian Federation starting from the end of 2025, ”Rogozin said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
Express-RV is a project of a series of telecommunications satellites for a high elliptical orbit. He appeared in 2007. In October 2018, they tried to include him in the Sphere project. In 2021, the Ministry of Digital Development took over the functions of the customer, and the cost of the program until 2030 was announced in the amount of 151.8 billion rubles, later the amount was reduced first to 132 billion rubles, and then to 104 billion rubles (46 billion rubles of extra-budgetary funds). However, in April 2022, it was proposed to transfer the functions of the customer to Roscosmos, which was done in August 2022.
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