The budget for the planning period from 2022 to 2024 provides for financing of the main activities of the project in the amount of 21 billion rubles
MOSCOW, January 13. /tass/. The program for the creation of the multi-satellite grouping "Sphere" is planned to be approved in 2022. This is stated in the presentation of the General Director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin.
"In 2022, it is planned to approve the federal project "Sphere" until 2030," the presentation says.
As specified, the budget for the planning period from 2022 to 2024 provides for financing of the main activities of the federal project "Sphere" in the amount of 21 billion rubles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about the Sphere program on a direct line on June 7, 2018. It involves the launch of communications satellites and remote sensing of the Earth. In December 2020, a source told TASS that the work for 2021 has already been determined. In the fall of 2021, Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin noted that the Sphere program will include five satellite groupings providing telecom services, and five more - surveillance.
In November, it was reported that Roscosmos selected performers of work on key technologies for the creation of small spacecraft under the Sphere program.
