MOSCOW, June 25 – RIA Novosti, Yekaterina Zgirovskaya. agreement to launch from 2017 to 2019 to a family of Russian rockets “Soyuz”, more than 600 British satellite is a great business opportunity for the Russian Space Agency, and the number problems in orbit does not deliver, consider the experts polled by RIA Novosti.
Federal Space Agency said Thursday that it has signed with the French company Arianespace and British Oneweb contract for 21 commercial launch 672 satellites in the mobile satellite carrier rocket “Soyuz” with airfield Kourou (French Guiana) and Baikonur from 2017 to 2019.
If the project is successfully implemented, the contract includes an option for at least another five launches “Union” after 2020.
MORE ROCKETS – more profit
According to the academician of the Russian Academy of Astronautics (RAC) Tsiolkovsky Alexander Zheleznyakov, the commercial importance of concluding the contract is clear. “The more we produce the missiles, the more we receive from this profit, it will be put on stream, and the Federal Space Agency will have some benefit at the same time” – he said RIA Novosti.
His colleague at the Academy and in combination chief editor of “Space News” Igor Marinin also stresses the importance of the contract.
“This is a guaranteed reservation for a few years rather intensive production” Soyuz-2 “, and for the Rocket and Space Center in Samara is very good, and TsENKI (Center for operation of ground-based space infrastructure), because they are involved in startups, “- he said.
In this Marinin said that you can not get ahead of ourselves, because mass production of the satellites have not yet been established.
PLUGS not wait
claimed to launching satellites in the 672 unit – rather ambitious figure considering that in orbit now operate about 650 satellites, not to mention alone fulfilled his. Only Russian orbital group today is about 140 spacecraft. If previously the head of the Russian Space Agency, Igor Komarov said that by 2025 it will grow to 181 satellites.
As explained by the RIA Novosti Zheleznyakov, academician, the “dead” satellites in Earth orbit flies over a thousand, and if you add to them operating, they will be more than two thousand, but the problems they create do not have to, as their mission can be adjusted and corrected.
“Add (two thousand), another 600 – it will be running satellites whose orbits are easy to track, calculate and easy to predict any possible danger. There is nothing to worry about. It is much more dangerous – these are the fragments, and their number is more than 15,000 that are circling around the Earth and that maloprognoziruemy, although monitored, but they may in some time to throw, nobody knows, “- said Zhelezniakov.
According to the academician, small satellites Oneweb, which weigh 150 kilograms, at the end of life will be able to get yourself out of orbit under the influence of gravity. He noted that they are designed for a term not exceeding three years, after which the process of recovery will occur “naturally”.
In turn, Academician Marinin suggests that such devices should have propulsion for orbit correction and data satellite with her, so the problems in the orbit of these 672 do not have to deliver the unit.
“I think that the system should be sufficiently intense automated because control group in more than 600 satellites is very difficult, it is likely everything will be controlled automatically, “- he said RIA Novosti.
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