Gazprom Space Systems (formerly Gascom) –is a private commercial, non-governmental satellite operator based in Russia. GSS was established in 1992. Its shareholders are Gazprom - the world biggest gas company, Rocket-Space Corporation Energia - the leading Russian space enterprise, and Gaszprombank - the largest Russian non-state bank and Gazprom’s authorized bank.
The Company operates Yamal Satellite Communication System, providing the users with:
- satellite capacity worldwide;
- satellite services in Russia (“point-to-point” links, TV distribution, VSAT networks, broadband, mobile backhaul, trunking etc.).
Today Yamal Satellite Communications System consists of four Satellites (Yamal-202 at 49E, Yamal-300K at 183E, Yama-401 at 90E and Yamal-402 at 55E), state-of-the-art telecommunication center and VSAT networks in the regions of Russia. Total Yamal satellite constellation capacity amounts to 248 equivalent transponders of 36MHz and about a third of it is concentrated in beams pointed over territories outside Russia.
The geography of GSS clients encompasses around 30 countries and services based on Yamal capacity are used in more than one hundred countries. Although on the international market GSS provides pure capacity, the company has a number of partner teleport companies in the Europe, Middle East, Far East, Asia, Africa and America which provide value added services.
The next step of the company constellation enhancement will be Yamal-601 satellite dedicated to replace Yamal-202 satellite operating at 49E. In total at least five new satellites are planned to be launched by 2025.
For more information go to www.gazprom-spacesystems.ru
