The creation of new Satellites “GLONASS-K2” costs “Roskosmos” twice as expensive than spacecraft “GLONASS-K” of the previous generation, told RIA Novosti CEO of “information satellite systems” (ISS) Nikolay Tesotov, calling it absolutely natural process.
According to him, this circumstance is associated with the “complex of reasons.” “First, the first” GLONASS-K2 “are collected in a foreign component base. The dollar has doubled. The cost of import and-dependent devices that will go from 2026, in turn, it is necessary to make reflashing work,” said the head of ISS .
The second reason is related to the presence of additional equipment from the GLONASS-K2, which takes place the spacecraft one and a half times. “Thirdly, prices for components have grown. Take a deflator five percent per year and multiply for ten years that have passed from the launch of the first” GLONASS-K “. Only due to the multiplication of the deflatator you will get two-time growth. That is, the doubling has happened – this is Absolutely natural process, “said pasta.
According to him, the first satellite “GLONASS-K2” is planned to be launched in 2022. “We are continuously working on its preparation for the launch, but unfortunately there were questions about the work of on-board mathematics. For an experimental work on a new companion, this is an ordinary situation that is impossible to predict,” the general director of the ISS.
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Tesoedov assured that from 2026 all Space devices “GLONASS-K2” will be made from the Russian element base. “Even where the Russian industry does not have technological opportunities to make a concrete chip, replace its microbrust, but domestic production. Somewhere due to this, weight can be added compared to using a foreign component base,” said the head.
In November 2020, RIA Novosti, referring to the materials of Roscosmos, reported that the new satellites “GLONASS-K2” were four times more expensive than their predecessors.
In April of the same year in the publication “Demand for the discipline” of the newspaper “Siberian satellite”, it was argued that the manufacturers of the manufacture of spacecraft of the Issue were torn due to delays in the supply of components from subcontractors.