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developed by Russian aerospace firm Bureau 1440, are designed to provide broadband internet coverage
More than 900 are expected to be launched by 2035, with commercial services involving over 250 satellites planned to begin in 2027.On
Russian space development program valued at 4.4 trillion rubles ($57 billion) and endorsed by President Vladimir Putin last week.Starlink
Kyiv has accused Russian troops of using Starlink devices obtained illicitly from third countries.Putin first announced a Starlink
competitor, Sfera, in 2018, but that project was scrapped amid sanctions on Roscosmos.Roscosmos launched three satellites under the
Rassvet-1 project in June 2023, under former director Yury Borisov, who was dismissed in February following a string of failures and stalled
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