Dmitry Rogozin, Director General of Roscosmos State CorporationMOSCOW, Jan 23Fakel Kaliningrad enterprise received thousands of orders for electric propulsion engines for satellites, said Dmitry Rogozin, general director of Roskosmos. thousands, we can say that hundreds and thousands of satellites will be built in the coming years,» he said in an interview with Russian Space magazine. The need to put these satellites into orbit, according to Rogozin, confirms that in three or four years a shortage of launch capacities, and not a “collapse of the market” for launch services, as many experts believe. Fakel is one of the world leaders in the production of plasma engines that are used on satellites kah. In particular, their engines are on all satellites of the British OneWeb system, Elon Musk's Starlink competitor. OneWeb satellites also put Russian missiles into orbit. The contract between Arianespace and OneWeb for 21 launches of Soyuz rockets from the Baikonur, Vostochny and Kuru cosmodromes was signed in June 2015. In September 2020, OneWeb announced that the number of contracted Soyuz launches had been reduced to 19. 12 have already been completed: five from Baikonur, six from Vostochny and one from Kuru. In 2022, six launches are planned from Baikonur, as well as one launch from the Kuru cosmodrome.
