However, the parties terminated their cooperation
Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2025 8:42 am
As the founder and CEO of SR Space Oleg Mansurov told a ComNews correspondent, the project with the T1 holding was primarily dedicated to an experiment in controlling unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from outer space. "To do this, it was necessary to send a transmitter to an altitude of over 100 km on an SR Space launch vehicle," Oleg Mansurov noted.
already in August 2023. According sweden whatsapp resourceto Oleg Mansurov, this happened immediately after the change of the general director of the T1 holding and is directly related to this event. Legally, the partners terminated the agreement in December 2023. The project financing volume was about 300 million rubles.
The T1 holding company has refused to participate in the program of launching devices into orbit and has focused on developing Earth remote sensing services in terms of space technologies. "We have built a ground-based space infrastructure, and are providing a service for the supply of remote sensing data and, based on this, a geospatial analytics service. The ground-based infrastructure located in Moscow includes a center for processing and storing space data and a station for receiving remote sensing data from space, which consists of an antenna and an antenna control complex. Currently, a network of data receiving stations is being formed, which already includes three partner stations," a representative of the T1 holding press service told a ComNews correspondent.
SR Space did not close the project and continued working on it, while simultaneously searching for a new partner. "Before the contract with T1 was terminated, we had completed half of the planned tasks. Therefore, we want to implement this experiment in a slightly different form and with a different partner. Work on developing the engine and rocket did not stop. At the moment, we are independently financing the project using revenue from other areas. It is too early to talk about specific launch dates," added Oleg Mansurov.
Deputy Director General of JSC VISAT-TEL Valentin Anpilogov believes that there is no need for such projects: "There are several initiative projects to create ultra-light launch vehicles. But it is unclear why they are needed. The cost of launching such rockets, reduced to a kilogram of payload, is very high. Moreover, this requires a cosmodrome with state participation. I do not see a niche where such rockets cannot be avoided."
already in August 2023. According sweden whatsapp resourceto Oleg Mansurov, this happened immediately after the change of the general director of the T1 holding and is directly related to this event. Legally, the partners terminated the agreement in December 2023. The project financing volume was about 300 million rubles.
The T1 holding company has refused to participate in the program of launching devices into orbit and has focused on developing Earth remote sensing services in terms of space technologies. "We have built a ground-based space infrastructure, and are providing a service for the supply of remote sensing data and, based on this, a geospatial analytics service. The ground-based infrastructure located in Moscow includes a center for processing and storing space data and a station for receiving remote sensing data from space, which consists of an antenna and an antenna control complex. Currently, a network of data receiving stations is being formed, which already includes three partner stations," a representative of the T1 holding press service told a ComNews correspondent.
SR Space did not close the project and continued working on it, while simultaneously searching for a new partner. "Before the contract with T1 was terminated, we had completed half of the planned tasks. Therefore, we want to implement this experiment in a slightly different form and with a different partner. Work on developing the engine and rocket did not stop. At the moment, we are independently financing the project using revenue from other areas. It is too early to talk about specific launch dates," added Oleg Mansurov.
Deputy Director General of JSC VISAT-TEL Valentin Anpilogov believes that there is no need for such projects: "There are several initiative projects to create ultra-light launch vehicles. But it is unclear why they are needed. The cost of launching such rockets, reduced to a kilogram of payload, is very high. Moreover, this requires a cosmodrome with state participation. I do not see a niche where such rockets cannot be avoided."