MOMENT Russia launches the first satellite designed to provide broadband internet

Описание: Russia on Saturday launched the first satellite designed to provide broadband internet, a national state-owned analog of StarLink and OneWeb companies.

As part of the first mission of 2022, the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, with new-generation of Skif-D satellite and three Gonets-M satellites, were launched from Vostochny cosmodrome in the far east of Russia.

The Skif-D satellite is designed to test new technical solutions for high-speed Internet access. It is launched into a medium circular orbit at an altitude of 8,070 km.

Gonets-M satellites are used for mobile satellite communications, they record communication messages, such as fax, telex, or e-mail, and transmit them further.

According to Russia's Roscosmos space agency, this is the first launch of a carrier rocket of the Soyuz-2 family entirely on a new environmentally friendly fuel, naphthyl.