Former top manager of Gazprom-Media is seeking 80 billion rubles to create a satellite communications operator

In three years, a satellite communications operator will appear in Russia called “Sky Global Communications” ( “Sky GK” ). Its creation will be handled by Deputy General Director of Gazprom-Media Vyacheslav Kamnev, who, for the sake of this, is leaving his post. By 2019, he plans to build a Rosinfocom satellite communications system. The system will consist of three spacecraft in high elliptical orbits and one in reserve on the ground.

The operator will operate throughout Russia and provide digital television and radio broadcasting and Internet access at mobile objects in the coverage area, including in areas with difficult terrain (cities, forests, mountains). In addition, the group will cover the Arctic zone to the shores of Canada, as well as China and India.

The developer of the system solution is the general designer of “Sky GK”, the father of Mr. Kamnev, doctor of technical sciences, professor Evgeny Kamnev. "The project is focused on providing services to passengers of airplanes, trains, cars," says Vyacheslav Kamnev. The potential audience of the operator is 50 million people.
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He expects that the device for mass use (for example, for installation in a car) will cost up to 10 thousand rubles, and the speed of access to the Internet via it will be 3.5 Mbit / s. The cost of the device for group use (for an airplane or a train carriage) will be “hundreds of thousands” rubles, the speed of Internet access is up to 60 Mbit / s.

According to Kartoteka.ru, Nebo GK LLC was registered at the beginning of the year, 100% owned by Natalia Melnikova, who owned TPO Red Media before the sale of NTV Plus (subsidiary of Gazprom-Media).

Investment in the project should reach 80 billion rubles. Kamnev is negotiating to raise funds with Russian and foreign investors.

Recently, several ambitious projects in satellite communications were announced at once, Kommersant writes . In the coming years, more than 5,000 satellites are planned to be put into orbit, it was noted in a study by J`son & Partners Consulting. The largest grouping - 4,000 satellites - is preparing to organize Space Exploration Technologies Ilona Mask to provide accessible Internet to remote regions.

Due to the large number of “competing” satellites in geostationary orbit, Kamnev’s team decided to use a high elliptical orbit. It will solve the problem of lack of frequency resource: to receive a signal from such satellites, you can use the same frequency ratings as in geostationary orbit, without creating interference to these objects.

According to Dmitry Chernyshenko, General Director of Gazprom-Media, it is planned to coordinate actions to create new opportunities for consumers of satellite radio and television services, as well as multimedia content. He expects that cooperation will expand the distribution of the content of the holding and in its development, in the future, take into account the requirements of new technologies.

In November 2015, Geektimes wrote that experts from Russia and China are discussing a draft of a global system of low-orbiting satellites to provide high-speed Internet access. The project is called the “Star of Happiness”.

“We were offered to work on the creation of a new low-orbit constellation consisting of more than 100 satellites for broadband access to the Internet and everything connected with it, ” Nikolay Testoedov, CEO of Information Satellite Systems named after academician Reshetnev told RIA Novosti.

The system is created by the operator of only one state, but in the future its services will be available to all users. From any country in the world it will be possible to access the Internet via Russian satellites.