These plans were announced at the SATCOMRUS 2024 international conference by Sergey Masalov, First Deputy General Director of Gazprom SPKA LLC. According to him, the new design bureau is successfully coping with import substitution in satellite construction.
This year, we created the first assembly production facility with a complete technological cycle. It can simultaneously produce up to four medium and heavy-class spacecraft, or up to 100 small spacecraft per year. We have created and patented our own space platform, on the basis of which it is possible to make broadband and environmental monitoring satellites, as well as radar and optical devices.
Masalov noted that Gazprom SPKA plans to launch ten large satellites by 2030, "six of which are radar type, 3 are optical type, and Yamal-502 is Ka-band". All of them are included in the Sfera federal project and are part of a public-private partnership.
Earlier in 2024, Gazprom SPKA announced that they would begin producing their Smotr-V satellites from the summer of 2024. It was also announced that devices would be produced at Gazprom SPKA's facilities for the benefit of Roscosmos and other customers.
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