Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the need to allocate 116 billion rubles to develop Russian satellites dedicated to providing high-speed Internet services to the Earth.
In his annual message to the Russian Federal Assembly on Thursday, Putin said: “116 billion rubles should be allocated to develop Russian satellite constellations dedicated to providing fast Internet services.”
Russia has been working for several years to develop many satellites dedicated to providing Internet services to the Earth, including the new generation Skif satellites that it is developing within the framework of the Sphere project.
Within the framework of the aforementioned project, the Marathon-IoT satellites dedicated to providing Internet of Things services to the Earth are also being developed, as well as the Express-RV satellites, which will provide communications and Internet services to the regions of northern Russia and the Arctic.
The Russian "Ross Cosmos" agency had previously noted that the Sphere system, which it intends to develop in space, will include 7 Express satellites, 4 new Express-RV satellites, 12 Skif satellites dedicated to securing broadband Internet networks, and 264 satellites. Marathon is dedicated to the Internet of Things, in addition to 2 Yamal communications satellites, 3 Smotr Earth remote sensing satellites, 84 Berkut-O and Berkut-VD satellites, and 12 Berkut-X and Berkut-XLP satellites.
Many Russian universities are also working on developing nanosatellites that will be used for scientific purposes and studying new technologies to provide communications and Internet services to Earth from space.
It is potentially reshaping the future of global connectivity and communications.
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