The Mikhail Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (ISS) enterprise (part of Roscosmos) has signed a framework agreement with the French firm SAFT (a subsidiary of Total) for the supply of lithium-ion batteries for commercial telecommunications satellites, the state corporation reports.
“The use of modern lithium-ion batteries will provide high energy characteristics of power supply systems for spacecraft without increasing their mass, which will make it possible to redistribute it in favor of the payload,” Roscosmos notes.
The state corporation recalls that the sources from SAFT have previously received 15 spacecraft manufactured by ISS.
In October, the general director of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, at a meeting on the development of the Northern Sea Route, chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, promised that by 2025 the state corporation would ensure almost complete independence of imports.
In April, the publication “Demand for Discipline” of the newspaper “Siberian Sputnik” reported that the production schedules for ISS spacecraft were disrupted due to delays in the supply of components from subcontractors.
In April 2018, Nikolay Testoedov, the general director of the ISS enterprise, said that the spacecraft of the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) consist of almost 40 percent of foreign components.
