Moscow. June 15. INTERFAX - The program of the global satellite constellation "Sphere "will be submitted to the government for consideration in June, said Yuri Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos for the development of the orbital constellation and promising projects.
"I think that this month the sub - program" Sphere" will be submitted to the government and then we will be able to start our movement all together, " Urlichich said at the International Navigation Forum.
On June 7, at the session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said that the cost of the global satellite system "Sphere" program will be 800 billion rubles. 500 billion rubles of the program costs are accounted for by private investment, Rogozin said.
In October 2020, Rogozin announced that Russia would begin deploying a satellite constellation as part of the Sphere global communications program in 2021.
Earlier Urlichich reported that the state corporation in the framework of the global communications project "Sphere "will create the" Internet of things " in space. The first demonstrators of this technology will appear in 2022.
In July 2018, President Vladimir Putin announced the Sphere project, which provides for the creation of a global network of 600 satellites to provide the territory of the Russian Federation and other countries with Internet and telephone communications. Its competitors are similar projects of OneWeb and SpaceX.
