MOSCOW, June 6 To maintain its position, Russia needs to rapidly increase the number of satellites, attract private business to serial production, said Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin .
According to Mishustin, the digital transformation of industries, strengthening the security of the Russian Federation is impossible without modern high-quality space services. The growing demand for them is provided by multi-satellite constellations, in the next eight years there will be more than 60,000 of them on a global scale, the Prime Minister emphasized.
than thousands. The basis will be the Sphere project. It is also necessary to develop capacities for the serial production of satellites, to involve private business in this work,» he said at a strategic session on the development of the rocket and space industry.
«And, of course, to continue, which is very important, the manned program, creating a Russian orbital station,» the prime minister added.