The companies claim the same frequencies as the Russian Skif satellite system, said Pavel Cherenkov, CEO of the Gonets Satellite System JSCMOSCOW, December 15.
/tass/. Starlink and OneWeb claim the same frequencies as the Russian Skif satellite system, but the application from the Russian Federation was submitted earlier. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the CEO of JSC "Satellite system "Messenger" (controls the operator company "Sphere") Pavel Cherenkov.
"Our application was received by the International Telecommunication Union among the first, before applications from Starlink and OneWeb were submitted there. Accordingly, we expect that it will be coordinated with priority over all other applicants who submitted their applications later than us," Cherenkov said, explaining that about 350 applications were sent after the Russian Federation.
According to the CEO of Gonets, the application for the range required for the operation of Skif was submitted by one of the Russian companies with which Sphere concluded an agreement to obtain the necessary set of rights in relation to the orbital frequency resource. "Starlink and OneWeb have already come out with a proposal to coordinate frequencies, but today we have not accepted the offer to coordinate, that is, in fact, we do not allow them to use their satellite systems on the territory of the Russian Federation," he added.
In order to confirm the orbital frequency resource, Cherenkov noted, the launched Skif-D demonstration vehicle must transmit a signal in the declared frequency ranges within 90 days. Also, during the first three years, at least 10% of the declared grouping should be deployed. There are 12 vehicles in the Russian application, so to confirm the rights in orbit, you will need to have at least one more Skif satellite.
"The range in which Skif operates is one of the priceless sectors of the frequency spectrum in which the combination of signal attenuation from interference and data transmission speed is optimal. That is why everyone wants to secure the rights to this particular frequency resource," Cherenkov explained.
The first Skif-D spacecraft under the Sphere program was launched on October 22 on a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Vostochny cosmodrome together with three Gonets-M spacecraft. The Skif grouping will be designed for broadband Internet access.
The full text of the interview will be published on the TASS website at 08:00 Moscow time.
