Jury Urlichich, Roscosmos First Deputy CEO of State Corporation for Development of Orbit Group and Prospective Projects, presented at the XI International conference "Satellite Russia & CIS: Digital services on all orbits” the conceptual framework of the Federal Target Program “Sphere” – Comnews agency repored on their pages.
The “Sphere” program will become the basis of scientific, technical and innovative development of the Space & Rocket Industry of the Russian Federation. It will include three constituents – communications, positioning and Earth remote sensing.
Among the “Sphere” backbone projects are, along with other systems, the Multifunctional Space Relay System “Loutch” and the Multifunctional System for Personal Satellite Communications “Gonets-D1M” in the communications segment.