{"id":28312,"date":"2026-07-21T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=28312"},"modified":"2026-07-21T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:06:10","slug":"russia-launches-a-new-batch-of-starlink-like-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=28312","title":{"rendered":"Russia Launches a New Batch of Starlink-Like Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia has launched a second batch of <strong>Rassvet<\/strong> satellites, which are intended to serve as the country&#8217;s alternative to <strong>Starlink<\/strong>. Around <strong>40 satellites<\/strong> are currently in orbit, according to <strong>Serhii &#8220;Flash&#8221; Beskrestnov<\/strong>, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, who shared the information on <strong>July 21<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Beskrestnov noted that the newly launched satellites have not yet taken their designated positions within the orbital constellation, although they could do so relatively quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added that Russia would need to deploy <strong>at least several hundred satellites<\/strong> before the <strong>Rassvet<\/strong> network could be used effectively for military purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison, he pointed out that <strong>SpaceX<\/strong> currently operates more than <strong>15,000 satellites<\/strong>, <strong>OneWeb<\/strong> has around <strong>600\u2013700<\/strong>, while <strong>Amazon Kuiper<\/strong> has approximately <strong>400\u2013500<\/strong>, with plans to expand its constellation to <strong>4,000 satellites<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, Russian dictator <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> said that Russia was developing a constellation of low-Earth orbit satellites to control &#8220;heavy drones.&#8221; He was likely referring to the <strong>Rassvet<\/strong> communications system being developed by <strong>Bureau 1440<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has launched a second batch of Rassvet satellites, which are intended to serve as the country&#8217;s alternative to Starlink. Around 40 satellites are currently in orbit, according to Serhii &#8220;Flash&#8221; Beskrestnov, an adviser to the President of Ukraine, who shared the information on July 21. Beskrestnov noted that the newly launched satellites have not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,56,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","category-technology","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28314,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28312\/revisions\/28314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}