dmitry bakanov, head of roscosmos, has announced a new \u201cnational space project\u201d that envisions launching over 1,000 satellites \u2014 including 886 for the \u201crassvet\u201d internet constellation. It sounds ambitious, but achieving this goal is highly unlikely amid the deep crisis currently gripping russia\u2019s space sector.<\/p>\n
\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> In 2024, russia carried out only 17 space launches \u2014 fewer than in 2023 (19) and 2022 (21). The 40 annual launches planned by roscosmos remain purely theoretical, with less than half actually implemented. Meanwhile, the United States and China \u2014 the leaders of the modern space industry \u2014 operate on a completely different scale: 145 and 68 launches, respectively.<\/p>\n \u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> Due to sanctions, russia has lost access to most Western technologies, and launches for foreign clients have virtually ceased. The current pace is the lowest russia has seen since the 1960s.<\/p>\n Amid war, sanctions, and the degradation of its scientific and industrial base, russia is rapidly losing its status as a \u201cspace power\u201d \u2014 and trying to cover it up with loud declarations about grand projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" dmitry bakanov, head of roscosmos, has announced a new \u201cnational space project\u201d that envisions launching over 1,000 satellites \u2014 including 886 for the \u201crassvet\u201d internet constellation. It sounds ambitious, but achieving this goal is highly unlikely amid the deep crisis currently gripping russia\u2019s space sector. \u25ab\ufe0f In 2024, russia carried out only 17 space launches…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":33072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":930,"footnotes":""},"categories":[930],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rf-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}