Roskosmos and Rostelecom State Corporation will unite resources in the development of digital technologies, including modernize the Telecommunication Systems of the Eastern Cosmodity. As part of the International Economic Forum held in St. Petersburg, the State Corporation on Space Activities “Roskosmos” and the largest distributor of digital services and solutions “Rostelecom” signed a Memorandum of Cooperation and Cooperation.
Signatures on the document put the Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and President Rostelecom Mikhail Oseevsky. The parties agreed to jointly use their intellectual potentials, organizational, technical and administrative resources for the development of digital products and services, and will also consider the possibility of joint activities in the field of information and communication technologies.
Memorandum defines specific areas of cooperation, in particular, the creation of a system of telecommunication support and communication of the Eastern cosmodrome, as well as the development of an extensive telecommunications infrastructure to create a corporate environmental exchange environment between the organizations of the Rocket and Space Industry, and with the federal executive authorities. In addition, it is planned to exchange analytical and statistical information, organization and joint participation in scientific and practical conferences, forums, seminars, other events on information and communication technologies and innovation.
Rostelecom “has a big and successful experience of cooperation with Roskosmos enterprises. The signed memorandum brings to a new orbit level of interaction between our companies. The spectrum of our interaction is expanding from the modernization of telecommunication infrastructure, including the eastern cosmodrome to the joint digitalization of the entire state corporation” Roscosmos “with subsidiaries “,” said Rostelecom President Mikhail Oseevsky.