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Is this realistic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MOSCOW \u2014 Russia wants have about 2,600 satellites in orbit by 2036, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2024\/02\/01\/russian-leaders-have-high-hopes-for-new-nukes-this-year-again\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yury Borisov<\/a>, the head of the Roscosmos space agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notably the country aims to put Sfera communications satellites into orbit \u2014 an analogue of the American-made <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2024\/06\/12\/estonian-made-combat-robots-in-ukraine-now-come-with-starlink\/\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> and the British <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/battlefield-tech\/space\/2023\/09\/15\/how-two-satcom-companies-are-responding-to-starlinks-dominance\/\" target=\"_blank\">OneWeb<\/a> constellations. Roscosmos previously sought to launch more than 600 systems into space as part of this project, but budget cuts prevented this. Now the agency is eyeing 360 satellites, although Borisov said the goal ought to be at least 1,200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The government has agreed to approve 180 billion rubles (U.S. $2 billion) for 162 satellites. However, thus far the state has allocated 95 billion rubles, and a strategy meant to further develop the domestic communications sector up to 2035 calls for the launch of six geostationary satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sergei Prokhorov, who leads the Sfera project, recently said there is money set aside for four of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is this practical?<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Borisov, who spoke July 3, is aiming for the production of at least 250 satellites per year for various purposes, the country currently makes about 15 annually \u2014 despite an existing capacity to manufacture about 40 each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roscosmos\u2019 goal is unrealistic, according to Pavel Luzin, a space policy expert at the Center for European Policy Analysis think tank. He noted the satellites will likely serve several functions, including optical observation, communications, meteorology, radar and television service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll the serious satellites that Russia has launched into space since 2022 were produced using imported Western electronics purchased no later than the mid-2010s, before the first sanctions,\u201d Luzin told Defense News, referring to economic restrictions placed on Russia following its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\">full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt turns out to be a fundamental contradiction: Russia has a big problem with satellite production, but at the same time Russia declares that in just a couple of years it will be able to produce [250] high-quality satellites for various purposes per year and is already mastering the technologies of their conveyor production,\u201d Luzin said. \u201cThis simply does not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia can find components on the world market for the production of several satellites, but not enough to produce hundreds, Luzin added. \u201cThe heads of companies report that despite the sanctions, the industry is alive, although in fact they may not know where to get components for hundreds of satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Indeed, Borisov had said \u201cindustry is functioning relatively stably\u201d amid the sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amid the war, the state has adjusted its satellite production priorities, focusing heavily on dual-use satellites \u2014 that is, ones that provide military and civilian services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among its priorities are the optical reconnaissance satellite Razdan; a radar satellite for marine reconnaissance for the Pion-NKS constellation; two radar satellites, dubbed Obzor-R and Kondor; and several Glonass communications satellites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denis Banchenko, a former employee of Roscosmos, told Defense News that \u201ca significant part of the planned satellites, and most likely all of them, will be used in the interests of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation for intelligence, surveillance, navigation and communications purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notably the country aims to put Sfera communications satellites into orbit \u2014 an analogue of the Starlink and OneWeb constellations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":37,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,29,37],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3330],"class_list":["post-37216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battlefield-tech","category-home","category-space"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"6MRBOXT74RF4PP6VIAL2TEYKAY","arc_canonical_url":"\/space\/2024\/07\/08\/russia-wants-2600-satellites-in-orbit-by-2036-is-this-realistic\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Russia wants 2,600 satellites in orbit by 2036. 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