Gazprom's Smotr-V Earth remote sensing satellites are one step closer to reality. The Gazprom SPKA enterprise for the production of spacecraft will begin operations in July. The first satellites will be created in cooperation with partners: private companies whose names are not disclosed.
As Sergey Masalov, First Deputy General Director of Gazprom SPKA, stated at a meeting of the interdepartmental commission on the use of the results of space activities, the plant will be launched "in two weeks." Product testing will begin in August.
We are currently [discussing plans] with colleagues from private companies — they plan to produce two satellites per week in 2025.
At this rate, the plan is to produce one hundred small devices per year.
The project to create satellites from PJSC Gazprom Neft became known in the fall of 2020. It was assumed that by 2022, a spacecraft assembly plant (SPKA) of Gazprom SPKA LLC would be built in Shchelkovo near Moscow. It was intended to produce not only Smotr-V Earth remote sensing satellites, but also other civilian spacecraft for Roscosmos and other customers.
In 2024, the first copies of the Shchelkovo satellites were to be produced at the enterprise's facilities. By 2035, Gazprom stated that it planned to launch fourteen of its own satellites into orbit: eight Yamal satellites and six Smotr-V satellites.
Smotr-V
An Earth remote sensing satellite with a combined payload that will allow solving a wide range of production and environmental tasks. The group will be placed in a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 500 km. It is assumed that each satellite will be able to operate for ten years.
Six copies of Smotr-V will provide the ability to conduct optical panchromatic and multispectral surveys using optoelectronic equipment of at least 80,000 thousand km2 per year with a resolution of 0.5 meters per pixel in several modes. These are frame, corridor and area types of shooting and stereoscopic shooting.
With its help, it will be possible to monitor the condition and environmental monitoring of industrial facilities and adjacent areas, as well as hard-to-reach territories, including the Arctic, from Earth.
Satellites of this group will also be equipped with gas analyzers. They will help to produce video spectral surveys of high spectral resolution of specified areas of the Earth's surface in the infrared range with reference to geospatial coordinates. Thus, Smotry-V will detect greenhouse gas emissions plus methane emissions from 250 kg/h.
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