The West does not bring the Russian GLONASS “to mind” and doomed to failure. This was reported today by the world’s press and the Russian did not deny this fact. Thus, the news agency “News”, referring to the official representative of Roskosmos, said that in the profile department, it was decided to suspend the start of production of satellites “Glonass” new generation due to the restrictive measures of the West.

That is, that Roskosmos could announce the official competition for the production of the first batch of spacecraft, the agency need to make serious adjustments in the federal target program “Maintenance, development and use of” Glonass “in 2012-2020 gg” acting at the moment. The point here is that Russian satellites have lost a significant part of the supply of imported electronic-component base, which is the cause of an inability to start the production.

According to a source close familiar with the problem, experts Space Agency has long come to understanding of the fact that the start of production of satellites needed to find alternative components. In particular, it is conducted on import substitution, the issues which are involved in over the past few months. However, before the full resolution of the situation is still very far away, so the prospect of seeing domestic satellites “Glonass” in Earth orbit are very vague in nature.