FARNBOROUGH, United Kingdom. July 13 (Interfax) - The launch from Plesetsk Cosmodrome (Arkhangelsk region) of the Rokot conversion rocket with two Gonets-M satellites is scheduled for July 28, said Nikolai Testoyedov, General Director and General Design Engineer at Information Satellite Systems (ISS Reshetnev Company, based in Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory).
"We will launch the two satellites on the 28th. They are ready for the launch," he told Interfax-AVN at the Farnborough International Airshow 2012.
There is a possibility of putting three more similar satellites to orbit in the case there is a "window" in the technological working cycle of the Cosmodrome for yet another liftoff, Testoyedov said.
Also, ISS Reshetnev Company is starting a process of manufacturing eight new satellites for the Gonets-D1M system, Testoyedov said.
"The last two satellites will be made in early 2015, which means that by 2015 Russia will have a powerful cluster of low-orbit communication satellites," Testoyedov said
Low-orbit satellite systems have advantages such as global service coverage, the possibility to use small and inexpensive satellite terminals and omnidirectional antennas, and the possibility to provide communications services in any area, including hill and mountain terrains.