Track Russia's Rassvet constellation

azmth currently tracks 31 Rassvet satellites in CelesTrak's active catalogue, as of 16 October 2026. Data from CelesTrak, refreshed every 2 hours.

Share on XShare on BlueskyShare on RedditShare on FacebookShare on WhatsAppShare on Telegram

Open the live tracker

Rassvet, meaning dawn, is the low-Earth-orbit broadband constellation being built by the Russian company Bureau 1440. Its serial satellites are listed in tracking catalogues as RASSVET-3 followed by a number. azmth counts them live from CelesTrak data.

Also called Рассвет (Rassvet), Бюро 1440 (Byuro 1440), RASSVET-3, МегаФон 1440 (MegaFon 1440), Russian Starlink

As of 13 October 2026, Rassvet, the low Earth orbit broadband constellation of the Russian company Bureau 1440, is still being deployed: 37 of its 38 satellites are in orbit, 20 of the 32 serial satellites fly at about 510 km, two are expected to re-enter within weeks, and the company's announced target for commercial service is 2027.

TL;DR· 13 min read

Rassvet is a Russian satellite internet constellation built by Bureau 1440, part of IKS Holding. Six experimental satellites were launched in 2023 and 2024, and 32 serial satellites followed from Plesetsk on 23 March and 19 July 2026. As of 13 October 2026, 37 of the 38 are in orbit; the only one to re-enter is RASSVET-3 4, from the first batch, on 6 June 2026. Twenty serial satellites fly at about 510 km, 13 from the first batch and 7 from the second. Two second-batch satellites, RASSVET-3 17 and 23, never raised their orbits and are forecast to re-enter between late October and mid-November 2026. Bureau 1440 targets commercial service in 2027, and its website still gives an 800 km orbit.

31
in CelesTrak's active catalogue now
as of 16 October 2026
20 of 32
serial satellites at about 510 km, where the first batch settled
as of 13 October 2026 · source
292
active satellites in the Russian government's plan, with 383 launched in total by 2030 (announced target)
as of March 2025 · source

What Rassvet is

Rassvet (Рассвет, Russian for dawn) is a low Earth orbit broadband constellation developed by Bureau 1440 (Бюро 1440), a Russian company that is part of IKS Holding. According to the company, its serial satellites carry a 5G non-terrestrial network (5G NTN) payload, laser terminals for links between satellites and plasma thrusters. Bureau 1440 launched three experimental satellites in 2023 and three more in 2024, then launched its first 32 serial satellites, catalogued as RASSVET-3, in two batches in 2026.

According to Kommersant, the project began inside the mobile operator MegaFon under the name MegaFon 1440 and passed to IKS Holding in 2022, when it was renamed Bureau 1440. The first experimental mission, Rassvet-1, put three satellites into orbit on 27 June 2023 as a rideshare on the Soyuz-2.1b rocket that carried the Meteor-M No. 2-3 weather satellite from Vostochny. Rassvet-2 followed from Plesetsk on the night of 16 to 17 May 2024, sharing its rocket with Kosmos 2576, and on 25 July 2024 the company said it had set up a laser link between two satellites 1,005 km apart. Jonathan McDowell's GCAT catalogue gives the Rassvet-1 satellites a mass of about 80 kg each and the Rassvet-2 satellites about 120 kg.

The serial launches started later than planned. Roscosmos head Dmitry Bakanov said in June 2025 that the first 16 serial satellites would launch in December 2025, and in January 2026 Kommersant reported that the launch had slipped to 2026. The first batch of 16 lifted off from Plesetsk on a Soyuz-2.1b at 17:24 UTC on 23 March 2026, and a second batch of 16 followed from the same site on 19 July 2026. The rocket leaves the satellites at about 300 km, and they climb on their own plasma thrusters. On 13 October 2026, CelesTrak data showed 20 serial satellites at 508 to 513 km with an inclination of 82.3 degrees: 13 from the first batch and 7 from the second, which reached that height between 29 September and 10 October. Six more second-batch satellites were at 484 to 502 km. In the first batch, RASSVET-3 4 re-entered on 6 June 2026, RASSVET-3 14 was sinking slowly at about 340 to 355 km, and RASSVET-3 11, which had stalled at about 360 to 380 km, began climbing again on about 4 October and was at about 405 km by 12 October.

Assessments of how many satellites are working differ. Bureau 1440 told Kommersant on 9 June 2026, three days after RASSVET-3 4 re-entered, that its six experimental satellites and the 15 remaining first-batch satellites were in low Earth orbit, and that the 15 were working normally. Jonathan McDowell's GCAT catalogue, updated on 13 October 2026, counts 13 first-batch satellites as active in their operational orbit and 13 second-batch satellites as still raising their orbits. It classifies six serial satellites as failed early, RASSVET-3 4, 11, 14, 17, 23 and 26, and marks the three Rassvet-1 satellites as failed and unable to manoeuvre. Two of the six were already climbing again by then: RASSVET-3 26 from about 29 September and RASSVET-3 11 from about 4 October. RASSVET-3 17 and 23 never raised their orbits after launch, and on 13 October 2026 they were at about 235 to 255 km and falling about 1.6 km a day. SONIKS, a Russian network of open ground stations, forecasts from the latest orbital elements that they will re-enter around 29 October (No. 23) and 1 November 2026 (No. 17), and a modeller on the Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum, assuming no manoeuvres, gave the last days of October to the second week of November. United24 reported on 13 October 2026 that Bureau 1440 had not publicly announced the loss of either satellite, and the company's Telegram channel had not mentioned them.

The size and schedule of the finished constellation are plans. Bureau 1440 said in March 2025 that it was building more than 250 satellites for global coverage, and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko's office gave the government target as 292 active satellites, with 383 to be launched in total by 2030 to allow for gradual replacement, although Kommersant wrote on 9 June 2026 of 292 satellites by 2030 including spares. The work sits in the Internet Access Infrastructure federal project within the Data Economy national project, and Kommersant reported planned funding to 2030 of 102.8 billion roubles from the federal budget and 329 billion roubles of the company's own money. ComNews calculated on 4 August 2026 that the federal project's end-2026 target of 156 satellites in orbit would need seven more launches that year, and by 13 October 2026 no third batch had appeared in CelesTrak's catalogue and azmth found no announced launch date. The company's website still gave an orbital altitude of 800 km on 13 October 2026, while the highest serial satellites sit at about 510 km. ComNews suggested on 21 July 2026 that the working orbit had been lowered to about 514 km, a question the company did not answer. Speaking at the Satcomrus conference in Nizhny Novgorod in late September 2026, Deputy CEO Dmitry Agafonov said: 'We are in the active phase of raising and manoeuvring the spacecraft. By the number of kilometres the satellites cover per day, we are on schedule', as quoted by ComNews on 8 October 2026.

Bureau 1440 is not named on the US OFAC, EU or UK sanctions lists checked on 14 September 2026, and a search of the OpenSanctions database on 13 October 2026 found no listing for the company. Its parent company, IKS Holding, has been on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list since 24 February 2023. Ukraine's chargé d'affaires in Washington, Denys Sienik, urged US sanctions on Rassvet's suppliers, the Berliner Zeitung reported from Reuters on 1 October 2026, and in late August 2026 Ukraine's foreign ministry asked the International Telecommunication Union to exclude Ukrainian territory from Rassvet's service areas. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev answered on 4 October with a warning of 'a full-scale space war', and the ITU confirmed to ComNews on 6 October 2026 that it had received the request. According to Ukraine's Defence Intelligence, as reported by Janes on 7 September 2026, Russian forces used the first group of Rassvet satellites over Ukraine for several hours by late July 2026; that account comes from a single Ukrainian intelligence source. A confidential Bundeswehr analysis, reported by the German public broadcasters NDR and WDR on 15 September 2026, expects Rassvet-3 to start service at the end of 2027 at the earliest, with 288 satellites and 'very probably only' conditional operational readiness, and warns that it would give Russian forces their own real-time control of unmanned systems for the first time.

How to find them on the globe

CelesTrak names the serial satellites RASSVET-3 1 to RASSVET-3 32, with a space before a number that runs on across launches (Nos. 1 to 16 are 2026-061A to R, and Nos. 17 to 32 are 2026-165A to R). The six experimental satellites carry no Rassvet name: CelesTrak lists them as OBJECT E, P and T (2023-091) and OBJECT G, H and J (2024-092), and on the globe they appear under bare designations such as 2023-091E. McDowell's GCAT identifies them as Rassvet-1 Nos. 1 to 3 and Rassvet-2 Nos. 1 to 3, and marks the Rassvet-1 identifications as uncertain. Bureau 1440's own launch posts do not use the name Rassvet-3; they speak of its first and second batch launches.

Coverage and service

As of 13 October 2026, Rassvet was still being deployed and tested. Bureau 1440 gives 2027 as its target for the start of commercial broadband service, a date RIA Novosti restated on 27 September 2026, when Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he hoped the system would start working as soon as possible. After losing RASSVET-3 4, the company told Kommersant on 9 June 2026 that the service date was unchanged, and Roscosmos deputy director general Boris Glazkov gave a wider window of 2027 to 2028 for corporate customers, as reported by Kommersant. Public demonstrations followed in September and October 2026: residents of the Arctic village of Nelmin-Nos voted electronically through a Bureau 1440 terminal on 19 September, the coal company Elga signed an agreement with Bureau 1440 remotely over its satellite link on 8 October, and on 9 October the company ran a live test of combined satellite and mobile communication with MegaFon and a YADRO base station. On 6 October it presented its terminals, including the production 1440.ULTRA, rated at up to 700 Mbit/s, and a 1440.ZEMLYA terminal for trains travelling at up to 400 km/h. Earlier agreements cover future service: a MegaFon contract for backhaul to 500 base stations from 2027, a deal with Russian Railways to fit satellite internet to 135 Lastochka and Sapsan trains, a plan with the mobile operator Beeline to begin testing in autumn 2026, and an agreement of intent with the Belarusian satellite operator Belintersat. Terminal prices and tariffs had not been published by 13 October 2026, and a company representative at an October forum could not give the 1440.ULTRA's price. The company's website advertises speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s and latency under 70 ms; these are its own performance targets.

What we know

Operator
Bureau 1440 (ООО «Бюро 1440»), part of IKS Holding as of June 2026 · expert.ru
Launched
38: six experimental (three Rassvet-1 in 2023, three Rassvet-2 in 2024) and 32 serial RASSVET-3 in two batches of 16 as of 13 October 2026 · space.skyrocket.de
In orbit
37 of the 38 launched: 31 serial and six experimental; RASSVET-3 4 re-entered on 6 June 2026 as of 13 October 2026 · celestrak.org
Serial satellites at about 510 km
20 of 32 (13 first batch, 7 second batch), at 508 to 513 km and an inclination of 82.3 degrees as of 13 October 2026 · celestrak.org
Serial satellites lower down
Six at 484 to 502 km; RASSVET-3 11 (about 405 km) and 26 (about 330 km) climbing again; RASSVET-3 14 sinking slowly at about 340 to 355 km; RASSVET-3 17 and 23 falling toward re-entry as of 13 October 2026 · celestrak.org
Expected re-entries
RASSVET-3 23 around 29 October 2026 and RASSVET-3 17 around 1 November 2026 (SONIKS forecast from the latest orbital elements) as of 13 October 2026 · en.sonik.space
Independent status assessment
McDowell's GCAT counts 13 first-batch satellites active in operational orbit and 13 second-batch satellites still raising their orbits, and classifies RASSVET-3 4, 11, 14, 17, 23 and 26 as failed early; Nos. 11 and 26 were already climbing again as of 13 October 2026 · planet4589.org
Orbit advertised by the operator
800 km, on Bureau 1440's website as of 13 October 2026 · 1440.space
Launch vehicle and site
Soyuz-2.1b from Plesetsk for both serial batches; sources disagree on whether a Fregat upper stage flew as of 13 October 2026 · planet4589.org
Serial satellite design
Company platform with a 5G NTN communications payload, new-generation laser terminals for links between satellites and plasma propulsion as of July 2026 · ria.ru
Serial satellite mass
About 370 kg as of 14 September 2026 · space.skyrocket.de
User terminal
1440.ULTRA, a production terminal rated by the company at up to 700 Mbit/s; prices not published as of 6 October 2026 · t.me
Planned size
More than 250 satellites (company); 292 active, with 383 launched in total by 2030 (government plan) as of March 2025 · comnews.ru
Announced service start
2027 for commercial service (company target) as of 27 September 2026 · ria.ru
Planned funding to 2030
102.8 billion roubles from the federal budget and 329 billion roubles of company funds (planned allocations) as of March 2026 · kommersant.ru
Sanctions
Bureau 1440 is not named on the OFAC, EU or UK lists checked; its parent, IKS Holding, is on the OFAC SDN list as of 14 September 2026 · ofac.treasury.gov

Timeline

  1. 2022

    After the sale of IKS Holding closes in June 2022, the MegaFon 1440 project passes to IKS Holding in an asset split and is renamed Bureau 1440, according to Kommersant. kommersant.ru

  2. 27 June 2023

    Rassvet-1: Bureau 1440's first three experimental satellites are launched from Vostochny. t.me

  3. 16 May 2024

    Rassvet-2: three more experimental satellites are launched from Plesetsk at 21:21 UTC (00:21 Moscow time on 17 May) on a Soyuz-2.1b with a Fregat upper stage, alongside Kosmos 2576. planet4589.org

  4. 25 July 2024

    Bureau 1440 says it has closed a laser link between two satellites 1,005 km apart and flight-qualified its own laser terminals. t.me

  5. March 2025

    Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Grigorenko's office gives the government plan as 292 active satellites, with 383 launched in total by 2030. comnews.ru

  6. 23 January 2026

    Kommersant reports that the launch of the first 16 serial satellites has slipped from 2025 to 2026. ru.themoscowtimes.com

  7. 23 March 2026

    First batch launch: 16 serial satellites, later catalogued as RASSVET-3 1 to 16, lift off at 20:24 Moscow time (17:24 UTC). t.me

  8. 6 June 2026

    RASSVET-3 4 re-enters the atmosphere. celestrak.org

  9. 9 June 2026

    Bureau 1440 tells Kommersant that six experimental and 15 first-batch satellites are in orbit, that the 15 are working normally, and that the commercial service date is unchanged. kommersant.ru

  10. 19 July 2026

    Second batch launch: 16 serial satellites, catalogued as RASSVET-3 17 to 32, lift off from Plesetsk. celestrak.org

  11. 21 July 2026

    ComNews reports 12 first-batch satellites at 502 to 523 km, well below the 800 km on the company's website, and suggests the working orbit was lowered to about 514 km. The company does not answer. comnews.ru

  12. 4 August 2026

    ComNews calculates that the federal project's end-2026 target of 156 satellites in orbit would need 125 more and seven launches. comnews.ru

  13. 2 September 2026

    Business Insider reports, from US Space Force data, that none of the second batch has reached its intended orbit. yahoo.com

  14. 13 September 2026

    Militarnyi argues that the second batch was written off too early and that a firm verdict needs 100 to 125 days after launch. militarnyi.com

  15. 15 September 2026

    A confidential Bundeswehr analysis, reported by the German public broadcasters NDR and WDR, expects Rassvet-3 to start service at the end of 2027 at the earliest, with 288 satellites. tagesschau.de

  16. 19 September 2026

    Residents of the Arctic village of Nelmin-Nos take part in remote electronic voting through a Bureau 1440 satellite terminal, the company says. t.me

  17. 29 September 2026

    RASSVET-3 29 becomes the first second-batch satellite to reach about 510 km, according to Militarnyi. militarnyi.com

  18. 6 October 2026

    ComNews reports that the ITU has confirmed receiving Ukraine's request to exclude its territory from Rassvet's service areas; Dmitry Medvedev had warned on 4 October of 'a full-scale space war'. comnews.ru

  19. 6 October 2026

    Bureau 1440 presents its user terminals, including the production 1440.ULTRA, rated at up to 700 Mbit/s. t.me

  20. 8 October 2026

    ComNews counts 17 serial satellites at about 510 km and quotes Deputy CEO Dmitry Agafonov, speaking at the Satcomrus conference in late September, as saying orbit raising is on schedule. comnews.ru

  21. 9 October 2026

    Bureau 1440, MegaFon and YADRO run a live test of combined satellite and mobile communication at the Digital Solutions forum. t.me

  22. 10 October 2026

    With RASSVET-3 19 and 22 arriving on 9 and 10 October, 20 of the 32 serial satellites are at about 510 km: 13 from the first batch and 7 from the second. celestrak.org

  23. 13 October 2026

    SONIKS forecasts that RASSVET-3 23 and 17, which never raised their orbits, will re-enter around 29 October and 1 November 2026; Ukrainian outlets report the same day that Rassvet satellites have started falling to Earth. en.sonik.space

Commonly got wrong

  • (1) The 800 km altitude on Bureau 1440's website, still shown on 13 October 2026 and repeated by Business Insider on 2 September 2026 as roughly 500 miles for the second batch, is not where the serial satellites fly. CelesTrak data for 13 October 2026 put the 20 highest serial satellites at 508 to 513 km, and the only Bureau 1440 satellites near 800 km are the three Rassvet-2 prototypes. ComNews suggested on 21 July 2026 that the working orbit had been lowered, and the company did not answer. Business Insider's own figure of about 340 miles (about 547 km) for the first batch is also higher than the tracking data show.
  • (2) Reports on the second batch have swung both ways. Business Insider's headline of 2 September 2026 said all 16 satellites had failed to reach their intended orbit, while the satellite observer Marco Langbroek wrote on 11 September that he saw no sign of the second batch failing to raise its orbits in comparison with the first. By 13 October 2026, 13 of the 16 had climbed to 484 km or higher. Headlines on 13 October 2026 saying that Russia's Starlink rivals had started falling to Earth refer to two satellites, RASSVET-3 17 and 23, which never raised their orbits after launch; the third low satellite of the batch, RASSVET-3 26, has been climbing since late September.
  • (3) Rassvet counts vary with what a tracker counts. CelesTrak lists the serial satellites as RASSVET-3 with a space before the number and the six experimental satellites under OBJECT names, so azmth's live figure of 31 counts only the serial satellites. On 13 October 2026 it was 31, every serial satellite still in orbit: the 32 launched minus RASSVET-3 4, which re-entered on 6 June 2026. Adding the six prototypes gives 37 Bureau 1440 satellites in orbit, and being in orbit is not the same as working. SatelliteMap showed 37 active on 14 September 2026 without saying which objects it counts. CelesTrak's TLE-format downloads also omit RASSVET-3 17 to 32, whose catalogue numbers have six digits, and a loose search for 1440 catches unrelated objects such as STARLINK-11440. In Google autocomplete on 14 September 2026, the bare word Rassvet was dominated by an unrelated fashion brand.
  • (4) Sources disagree on the rocket configuration for the serial launches. ComNews wrote on 21 July 2026 that the 23 March 2026 launch used a Fregat-M upper stage, while McDowell's GCAT launch log lists a plain Soyuz-2.1b and CelesTrak catalogues only a Soyuz third stage from that flight. For the 19 July 2026 launch, CelesTrak catalogues a Fregat upper stage (2026-165S), while GCAT names the same object as the Soyuz third stage and Gunter's Space Page lists a plain Soyuz-2.1b. That object re-entered on 27 September 2026; no Rassvet satellite has come down since 6 June 2026.

Sources

  1. Bureau 1440, official Telegram channel (in Russian)
  2. Bureau 1440, official website (in Russian)
  3. CelesTrak SATCAT, records matching RASSVET
  4. CelesTrak orbital elements (GP), RASSVET, JSON
  5. CelesTrak SATCAT, launch 2026-165
  6. Jonathan McDowell, GCAT satellite catalogue (updated 13 October 2026)
  7. Jonathan McDowell, GCAT launch log (updated 13 October 2026)
  8. Gunter's Space Page, Rassvet-3
  9. Kommersant, 9 June 2026 (in Russian)
  10. Kommersant, 24 March 2026 (in Russian)
  11. Kommersant, 8 February 2023 (in Russian)
  12. RIA Novosti, 20 July 2026 (in Russian)
  13. RIA Novosti, 18 February 2026 (in Russian)
  14. ComNews, 6 March 2025 (in Russian)
  15. ComNews, 21 July 2026 (in Russian)
  16. ComNews, 4 August 2026 (in Russian)
  17. ProKosmos, 9 July 2025 (in Russian)
  18. The Moscow Times Russian service, 23 January 2026 (in Russian)
  19. vc.ru, 3 September 2026 (in Russian)
  20. US Treasury OFAC, recent actions, 24 February 2023
  21. Business Insider via Yahoo News, 2 September 2026
  22. Militarnyi, 13 September 2026
  23. Janes, 7 September 2026
  24. CelesTrak SATCAT, launch 2026-061
  25. Jonathan McDowell, GCAT catalogue of objects with six-digit numbers, including RASSVET-3 17 to 32 (updated 13 October 2026)
  26. Jonathan McDowell, GCAT status codes
  27. SONIKS, re-entry forecasts (calculated 13 October 2026)
  28. Novosti Kosmonavtiki forum, Rassvet-3 orbit thread, October 2026 (in Russian)
  29. Bureau 1440 on Telegram, 20 September 2026 (Nelmin-Nos voting) (in Russian)
  30. Bureau 1440 on Telegram, 6 October 2026 (terminals) (in Russian)
  31. Bureau 1440 on Telegram, 8 October 2026 (Elga agreement) (in Russian)
  32. Bureau 1440 on Telegram, 9 October 2026 (hybrid test) (in Russian)
  33. ComNews, 6 October 2026 (in Russian)
  34. ComNews, 8 October 2026 (in Russian)
  35. RIA Novosti, 27 September 2026 (in Russian)
  36. UNIAN, 13 October 2026 (in Russian)
  37. Ukraine context on Telegram, 13 October 2026 (in Ukrainian)
  38. tagesschau (NDR and WDR), 15 September 2026 (in German)
  39. Berliner Zeitung (Reuters), 1 October 2026 (in German)
  40. Marco Langbroek, SatTrackCam blog, 11 September 2026
  41. Militarnyi, 3 October 2026
  42. United24 Media, 13 October 2026
  43. OpenSanctions, search for Bureau 1440 (13 October 2026)

Checked on 13 October 2026. Sources in Russian, Ukrainian and German were read in their own language and translated for this page; where official statements and independent tracking disagree, both are given. The live count above comes from the catalogue, not from this research.

Frequently asked

Are Rassvet satellites falling?

Two are close to re-entry. RASSVET-3 17 and 23, launched on 19 July 2026, never raised their orbits, and on 13 October 2026 they were at about 235 to 255 km and falling about 1.6 km a day. The Russian ground-station network SONIKS forecast on 13 October 2026 that No. 23 would re-enter around 29 October and No. 17 around 1 November 2026. A third, RASSVET-3 14 from the first batch, is sinking slowly at about 340 to 355 km. Of the other 14 satellites in the second batch, 13 have climbed to 484 km or higher and RASSVET-3 26 began climbing again in late September. As of 13 October 2026, the only Rassvet satellite to have re-entered is RASSVET-3 4, from the first batch, on 6 June 2026. Jonathan McDowell's GCAT catalogue (13 October 2026) counts six serial satellites as failed early, although two of them, Nos. 11 and 26, were climbing again by then.

How many Rassvet satellites are in orbit?

As of 13 October 2026, 37 of the 38 satellites Bureau 1440 has launched are in orbit: 31 serial RASSVET-3 satellites and six experimental prototypes from 2023 and 2024. The only one to come down is RASSVET-3 4, which re-entered on 6 June 2026. Of the 31 serial satellites, 20 fly at about 510 km, six are at 484 to 502 km and five are lower, two of them close to re-entry. azmth's live count, 31, covers the satellites CelesTrak names RASSVET, which leaves out the six prototypes because the catalogue lists them under OBJECT names.

Is Rassvet Russia's version of Starlink?

Rassvet is a Russian low Earth orbit broadband constellation whose satellites carry laser terminals for links between them, and Russian and foreign press often present it as the country's answer to Starlink. Bureau 1440 had launched 38 satellites by 13 October 2026, six of them experimental, against a company plan of more than 250 and a government target of 292 active satellites. For scale, CelesTrak's active catalogue held more than 11,000 Starlink satellites on 12 October 2026. Commercial service is an announced target for 2027.

When will Rassvet satellite internet be available?

Bureau 1440 has given 2027 as its target for commercial broadband service, a date RIA Novosti restated on 27 September 2026. Roscosmos deputy director general Boris Glazkov gave 2027 to 2028 for corporate customers, as reported by Kommersant, and a confidential Bundeswehr analysis reported in September 2026 expects a start at the end of 2027 at the earliest. On 13 October 2026, 20 serial satellites were at about 510 km and azmth found no announced date for a third launch, while ComNews had calculated in August 2026 that the federal project's target of 156 satellites in orbit by the end of 2026 would need seven more launches that year. Bureau 1440 ran public tests in September and October 2026, including electronic voting from an Arctic village and a combined satellite and mobile link with MegaFon, but no terminal prices or tariffs had been published.

Who owns Bureau 1440, and is it under sanctions?

Bureau 1440 is part of IKS Holding, a Russian technology group. Kommersant reported in February 2023 that the project began at MegaFon and moved to IKS Holding in 2022, and that the list of Bureau 1440's owners in the SPARK-Interfax company database was hidden. Kommersant also reported planned funding to 2030 of 102.8 billion roubles from the federal budget and 329 billion roubles of the company's own money. Bureau 1440 is not named on the US OFAC, EU or UK sanctions lists checked on 14 September 2026, and a search of the OpenSanctions database on 13 October 2026 found no listing for the company. Its parent, IKS Holding, is on the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list, and on 1 October 2026 the Berliner Zeitung, citing Reuters, reported that Ukraine was urging US sanctions on Rassvet's suppliers.

Found this useful? Share it

Open the live tracker →

azmth is a free, real-time satellite tracker showing every active satellite on an interactive 3D globe. No signup, no ads.