MOSCOW, April 12Russia needs to create domestic mass constellations of remote sensing of the Earth, a system of broadband Internet access and promising satellite-server storages in orbit, Anton Alekseev, general director of the Aerospace Corporation New Space Corporation, said.
Internet class OneWeb/StarLink. Another extremely urgent task is the creation of Russian constellations for remote sensing of the Earth, including optical and radar satellites for a number of directions,» Alekseev said.
According to him, Earth remote sensing satellites can be used in the fields of nature management, ecology, energy, as well as in construction and national security. Another promising direction Alekseev called the creation of satellites — server storage in orbit.
He stressed that at the moment the main «brakes» for the development of such orbital constellations among private companies are legislative restrictions. In addition, such companies are often unable to receive venture capital and long-term financing due to such «stop conditions», such as the availability of up to a billion rubles in revenue for the past year, or the conditions of already implemented 1 to 1 own co-financing for the project, or the mandatory availability of ready-made satellite to start dialogues about the possibility of support».
Alekseev believes that if there were no such restrictions, then the issue of working with the timing of the creation of satellites would become much more manageable. According to the expert, now in Russia there are «strong personnel, IT backlogs, historically established engineering space competencies» who only need to create conditions for multiple growth.
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