The US State Department pulled plans to launch satellites “Arctic” by banning because of sanctions to supply Russia needed for their production components. This is reported by “News».
«Dates for” Arctic “were we pushed together, as we had to redo part of the equipment due to the sanctions”, – said Sergey Lemeshevsky, CEO of “Scientific-Production Association named after Lavochkin” . Currently, engineers are planning to go to Russia and probably the Chinese components, he said.
The system “Arktika” is designed to monitor the polar regions and the Arctic Ocean. Agreement on the deployment was concluded in 2012 for a total amount of 5.3 billion rubles. It provides for the withdrawal of the first satellite into orbit November 25, 2015.
According to the draft of the Federal Space Program for 2016-2025 years, the launch of the first satellites “Arctic” postponed to 2017 minutes and all to 2021 it is planned to launch four apparatus. Approximately half of these satellites, similar devices “Electro-L” were to consist of foreign components.
The devices operating the basic functions of these satellites – the Russian. In particular, the Russian scanner installed giving multispectral image. However, the bulk of the transistors, chips and other components on devices produced abroad. Russian industry has not yet reached the desired level of production of components.
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Export US (as well as the last adjustment in the US) components for military and dual-regulated by a set of rules established by the US government for export of goods and services of a defensive nature – ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations). According to them, the export of goods categories of military (for military systems) and space (radiation hardened components) in Russia is possible with the permission of the US State Department. Difficulties in providing the country with these components began in 2013, when the United States because of the events with the former agent of US intelligence Snowden Edward and Syria banned the supply to Russia of components for the device “Geo-IK-2».
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