RSCC in a business meeting with China’s Great Wall Industry Corporation 

2 - 6 December, 2014

RSCC delegation was on a visit to the People’s Republic of China, and had a business meeting with China’s Great Wall Industry Corporation. The parties discussed potential cooperation to build, launch, and operate communications satellites. The RSCC delegation was briefed on the status and prospects of China’s space industry. They also toured the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST), including the Center for satellite assembly, integration and testing, as well as the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) and its assembly facility.  

Founded in 1980, China China’s Great Wall Industry Corporation (“Great Wall”) is the foreign trade arm of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASTC). Great Wall is the only business entity authorized by the PRC Government to engage in commercial launches. The corporation is involved in building and in-orbit commissioning of satellites. Great Wall’ powers also include international cooperation in the field of aerospace technologies. 

The Russian Satellite Communication Company (RSCC) is the Russian state satellite operator whose spacecraft provide a global coverage. RSCC was founded in 1967 and belongs to the ten largest world satellite operators in terms of satellites and orbital slots. The company possesses the largest satellite constellation in Russia. Satellites located in the orbital arc from 14 West to 145 East and cover the whole territory of Russia, the CIS, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific region, North and South America, and Australia.

As the national satellite operator, RSCC meets the important state tasks on providing mobile presidential and governmental communications, federal TV & Radio signal transmission over the territory of Russia and the most countries of the world. The company pays serious attention to implementing high-priority national projects and closely interacts with the Russian state authorities in the field of informational and telecommunications and broadcast systems development. RSCC provides a full range of communications and broadcasting services using its own terrestrial engineering facilities and satellite constellation, which includes state-of-the-art satellites Express-AM, Express-AT, Express-A, and a part of the French  36A satellite capacity. The company’s satellites offer wide opportunities for TV & radio broadcasting, including DTH, IPTV and MPEG-4 services, broadband Internet access, data transmission, videoconferencing, VSAT network deployment, as well as departmental and corporate communications networks worldwide. RSCC has deployed a modern ground satellite management system that is used to control and monitor the company’s own satellites, as well as Eutelsat, Intelsat, etc. satellites.