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Roscosmos will need 325 billion rubles to launch satellites for the global Internet

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calculated that for the deployment of an orbitalThe Sphere grouping will need 148 missile launches by 2030. The cost of the events is estimated at more than 300 billion rubles. The Sphere project, designed to compete with the British OneWeb and the American Starlink, should provide Russians with satellite Internet.

The Sphere orbital constellation will consist of638 satellites. This is stated in the preliminary launch program of Roscosmos. Of all these devices, 334 will be communications satellites, 55 will be navigation satellites, and 249 will be devices for remote imaging of the Earth.

Until 2030, to launch such an orbitthe number of vehicles will need to launch 88 medium Soyuz-2.1b missiles, 36 Angara-1.2 light missiles and 24 Angara-A5 heavy missiles. Missiles will supposedly be made not at the expense of the budget of the federal target program "Sphere". But who will pay them is unknown. The production of carriers will require 324.72 billion rubles.