On May 22, Roscosmos State Corporation will present a project to create a national system for covering the earth’s surface with high-speed Internet access, TASS
reports . In addition, innovative geo-informatics services will be announced at the presentation. Their basis is the results of remote sensing of our planet. But, of course, the greatest interest is the national system of covering the entire surface of the Earth with high-speed Internet access.
“The presentation participants will be presented with a project to create a national system to cover the Earth’s territory with high-speed Internet access and provide a continuous communication channel for unmanned vehicles, the Internet of things and secure data transmission,” the presentation announced.
Roscosmos explained that the new services will improve the work of public administration and business processes. Of the work will be provided by the data of remote sensing of the Earth and the national network of high-precision distancing.
Among the presenters, the presentation of the Director General of Roscosmos Igor Komarov is expected. Among the persons invited to the event will be the heads of the largest Russian companies, representatives of the authorities of the Russian Federation, as well as representatives of the banking and financial sector and other companies that are users of services and products of the Russian space industry.
The Executive Director for Business Development and Commercialization of the State Corporation, Anton Zhiganov, who is the moderator of the future presentation, said that Roskosmos had decided to make serious progress in the field of satellite communications, services and digital services that are based on them.
For this purpose, the capabilities of the low-orbit Gonets-D1M mobile satellite communication system and the “Ray” relay system will be used. Among other things, the creation of high-speed Internet access will use the OneWeb international global low-orbit communication system, which is still in the making.
Anton Zhiganov said that experts predict a steady increase in global traffic: by 2025, global traffic consumption will reach one zettabyte per month, and satellite Internet will become the only available method to meet the needs of the entire population of the Earth. Therefore, the corporation’s plans also prioritize the creation of its own global grouping of satellite Internet, which will allow all users to stay connected anywhere in the world and transmit huge amounts of information.
Zhiganov said that in 2023 the creation of a satellite Internet group would begin, and in 2026 it would go into operation. The project will solve a huge range of existing problems with voice communication, the transfer of small package messages, etc. All this will become part of the global information infrastructure and the creation of a new “Digital Economy of the Russian Federation” ecosystem will be ensured.
By 2019, OneWeb plans to launch a clustering of communications satellites that will provide broadband Internet access for users from all over the world. The coverage of the Earth’s surface will be almost complete. To launch satellites into Earth orbit, Russia in 2015 signed a launch contract for 21 Soyuz missiles with One Web satellites. Launches were planned from 2017 to 2019. At the same time, 17 launches will be made from Russian space centers.
The total number of satellites in the grouping is 882, they will be part of the first generation of devices. The second generation to expand the grouping to almost 3 thousand satellites. The nearest launch of the spacecraft under the OneWeb program will take place at the end of 2018 from the Kourou Guiana Space Center cosmodrome.
The closest competitor of the project is SpaceX satellite network. In March of this year,
it became known that the Federal Communications Commission of the United States allowed the company to implement its project. According to the plan, 50% of satellites will work in their places as early as March 2024, the rest will go into orbit by 2027. SpaceX satellite network will be called
Starlink .
Now the company has the opportunity to provide high-speed Internet for both US users and citizens of any other country in the world. Currently, there are many places on Earth where there is no access to the network, so SpaceX decided to provide Internet for everyone.