From the conveyor belt to orbit

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The Sphere should include five communications groups (Yamal, Express, Express-RV, Skif, and Marathon IoT) and five Earth remote sensing satellites (Pixel-VR, Berkut-VD, Berkut-X, Berkut-S, and Smotr).

To speed up and reboot the industry, Roscosmos turned to private companies for help; this practice is common throughout the world.

Any satellite system in the world must not content writing service only commercially sell its resource, but also ensure the information independence of the state and its security, noted Oleg Khimochko, First Deputy General Director of the company “Gonets Satellite System”, in a conversation with RSpectr.

BUSINESS NEEDS GUARANTEES

In January 2023, a cooperation agreement was concluded between domestic business structures and the state . The organizations that signed the document included the companies Sputnix and NPK BARL, noted Sergei Prokhorov, Director of the Department of Advanced Programs and the Sfera Project of the Roscosmos State Corporation, in a conversation with RSpectr.




Sputnix created the first Russian site for serial assembly of satellite platforms for small spacecraft in Skolkovo. The company BARL built the Khayyam spacecraft as part of cooperation with the Iranian Space Agency.

Private businesses need guarantees – these could be forward contracts, preferential lending, tax preferences, says Denis Kravchenko, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy. In a conversation with RSpectr, he pointed out that

It is necessary to lower the threshold for business entry into the space industry

Alexander Bloshchenko explained to RSpectr that the issue is the high cost of spacecraft launches. It can be reduced by using reusable launch vehicles.

Alexander Bloshchenko, Roscosmos:

– Then companies will have the opportunity to focus financial expenses not on transport, but on the development of equipment.

Yuri Borisov reported that the state corporation is ready to provide participants in joint projects with the Roscosmos testing base in order to reduce business expenses.

All conditions for cooperation and attraction of extra-budgetary capital will be set out in the draft law on private investments in the space industry. The document is being developed by Roscosmos and is planned to be submitted to the State Duma in the spring session in order to be adopted before the summer, the Congress reported.

Yuri Borisov believes that a free service does not stimulate either the producer or the consumer, so it is necessary to switch to a paid model: "We have three types of potential consumers of space services: federal executive authorities, regions and businesses. So each consumer needs to have their own roadmap for the transition to paid services."

The Roscosmos representative added that the state corporation’s coordinating role when private companies enter the industry is mandatory; it will eliminate duplication and ensure a more cost-effective creation of the group.