Russia's largest manufacturer of civilian drones has acquired 100% of the shares of JSC "Research Institute of Television" in the Vyborgsky District of St. Petersburg. A multifunctional technopark will be created on the basis of the institute, which has a 90-year history, Geoskan CEO Aleksei Yuretsky said at a meeting of the city government.
The 70-thousand-square-meter site will bring together development in three key areas: unmanned aircraft systems, spacecraft, and microelectronics. The Research Institute of Television, founded in 1935 as the All-Union Institute of Television, in recent years produced video equipment for spacecraft, aviation, and the submarine fleet.
It had been cooperating with Geoskan on educational CubeSat-standard nanosatellites since as early as 2021. Geoskan has not yet disclosed the timeline for modernization or the amount of investment, citing the asset audit stage.
Amid a shortage of engineering personnel and isolation from Western components, consolidating competencies in one location makes it possible to close the cycle from design to the production of pilot batches. The technopark in the Ploshchad Muzhestva area is effectively becoming the core of a non-state cluster capable of producing dual-use products without being tied to traditional defense design bureaus.
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