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Russia plans to deploy over 900 satellites by 2035 with commercial services starting in 2027, aiming to provide encrypted broadband and enhance military communications nationwide.
- Russia aims to deploy an initial group of 16 Rassvet low-Earth orbit satellites by the end of 2025 to establish nationwide broadband internet service.
- This effort follows President Putin’s 2023 directive to Roscosmos and ASI to develop a Starlink-like encrypted satellite internet constellation as a domestic alternative to Ukraine's heavy reliance on Starlink.
- Established in 2020, Bureau 1440, a private Russian aerospace company, is leading the initiative and has already launched six experimental satellites, with plans to increase launches to roughly a dozen rockets each year beginning in 2025.
- Roscosmos chief Dmitry Bakanov said, “We are also moving at a rapid pace in this direction,” while the system includes military satellite terminals like Kvadrat and Sprint already deployed in recent exercises.
- The constellation aims to reduce Russia’s dependency on foreign systems and enhance secure communication nationwide, particularly given Starlink's critical role for Ukrainian forces despite occasional outages.
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