Four Regional and two Central ground stations for GONETS-D1M Multifunctional system for personal satellite communications (MSPSC) have gone into operation by the decision of the Roscosmos State Corporation of 25 September 2020.

The RIPI’s specialists completed manufacture, assembly and autonomous testing of four Regional stations in the cities of Anadyr, Rostov-on-Don, Murmansk and Norilsk, which resulted in replenishment of the existing MSPSC ground-based infrastructure in December 2019.

Three other stations are now operating in the cities of Moscow, Zheleznogorsk and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The Regional stations ensure provision of satellite communications services relevant to data transmission and telecommunication monitoring with the required degree of accuracy and information delivery speed.

Two Central stations are functioning in Moscow and Zheleznogorsk.

The Moscow’s Central station together with the Communications Complex Control Center provide management of the services planning system, subscriber input, monitoring of the operation of subscriber terminals, managing resources of the SADKO onboard radio-engineering complex.

The Zheleznogorsk’s Central station together with the Mission Control Center provide monitoring and control over orbital constellation and GONETS spacecraft onboard systems.

The Central stations, if necessary, are capable of carrying out full functional redundancy of each other. When conducting a number of operations related to monitoring procedures, corrective actions, measuring the current navigation parameters of the spacecraft orbit, both stations always operate simultaneously.

Interaction between the two Central stations takes place through secure ground communications links.

In total, 13 GONETS spacecraft are currently operating in target orbit with the equipment of SADKO onboard radio-engineering complexes, developed by the RIPI’s specialists.

RIPI Press Service