Gazprom Space Systems participates in the Russian High-Tech Week
The Russian High-Tech Week takes place in Moscow from June 15 to 18. It brings together the International Exhibition Svyaz-2021, Navitech-2021 Forum, CSTB Telecom & Media Forum & Exhibition and offers an extensive business program.
Gazprom Space Systems acted as a partner of the Sphere Congress as part of the XIV International Navigation Forum.
The plenary session was attended by Yury Urlichich, First Deputy Director General of Roscosmos State Corporation, Dmitry Sevastiyanov, Director General of Gazprom Space Systems, Konstantin Smaznov, Deputy Director of Radioelectronic Industry Department of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, and Dmitry Bakanov, Director of the Digital Development Department of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
The plenary session was dedicated to the development of space services, technologies and systems, the Sphere program and new services for the digital economy of Russia and the global market.
Dmitry Sevastiyanov presented the capabilities of Gazprom's space technologies for the country, economy and society. Affordable communications and Internet, television, monitoring of infrastructural facilities and environment, control of greenhouse gas emissions – this is only a part of what space can offer for the development of Russia. Dmitry Sevastiyanov also noted the importance of public private partnership in the implementation of capital-intensive space projects and expansion of the market for space services.
At one of the Congress sessions Igor Kot, Deputy Director General of Gazprom Space Systems for Business Development, spoke about Gazprom's space projects included in the Sphere program. They are the new Yamal communication satellites, the SMOTR Earth remote sensing satellites and the Spacecraft Assembly, Integration and Testing Facility under construction.