Information Satellite Systems Enterprise (ISS) named after Mikhail Reshetnev (included in Roscosmos ) signed with by the French company SAFT (subsidiary Total ) framework agreement for the supply of lithium-ion batteries for commercial telecommunications satellites, reports state corporation.
“The use of modern lithium-ion batteries will provide high energy characteristics of power supply systems for spacecraft without increasing their mass, which will allow it to be redistributed in favor of the payload,” Roscosmos notes.
The State Corporation recalls that sources from SAFT have previously received 15 spacecraft produced by ISS.
In October, the general director of Roskosmos Dmitry Rogozin at a meeting on the development of the Northern sea route, chaired by the Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin , promised that by 2025 the state corporation will provide almost complete import independence.
In April in the publication “Demand for Discipline” of the newspaper “Siberian Sputnik” it was reported a> that the production schedules for ISS spacecraft were disrupted due to delays in the supply of components from subcontractors.
In April 2018, the general director of the ISS enterprise Nikolai Testoedov said that the spacecraft of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) are almost 40 percent foreign components.