{"id":91756,"date":"2026-11-04T20:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/russia-files-itu-plan-for-374-satellite-rassvet-4-constellation-following-rassvet-3-orbital-setbacks\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T12:54:12","slug":"russia-files-itu-plan-for-374-satellite-rassvet-4-constellation-following-rassvet-3-orbital-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/russia-files-itu-plan-for-374-satellite-rassvet-4-constellation-following-rassvet-3-orbital-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Files ITU Plan for 374-Satellite Rassvet-4 Constellation Following Rassvet-3 Orbital Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GENEVA \u2014 <strong>Russia has submitted a formal satellite network filing to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a proposed constellation designated Rassvet-4, according to a report published Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, by aerospace analyst Chris Forrester. <\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"927\" height=\"554\" src=\"https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rassvet-4_.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-127644\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.6732942981494818;width:763px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rassvet-4_.jpg 927w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rassvet-4_-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/satnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Rassvet-4_-768x459.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The previously unannounced regulatory filing details an expanded broadband network engineered by commercial developer Bureau 1440, intended to serve as a domestic sovereign alternative to commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) mega-constellations such as SpaceX\u2019s Starlink.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Preceding Rassvet-3 Deployments and Orbital Anomalies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The emergence of the Rassvet-4 filing follows operational setbacks encountered during Russia\u2019s deployment campaign earlier this year. Bureau 1440 launched 32 Rassvet-3 satellites across two dedicated Soyuz rocket missions from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, lofting 16-satellite clusters on March 23 and July 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The early orbital campaign suffered hardware degradation in orbit. Two of the deployed Rassvet-3 satellites experienced uncontrolled altitude loss and disintegrated during atmospheric reentry, while the remaining 30 spacecraft have stalled in lower orbital planes and have not yet reached their intended 800-kilometer operational altitude. Aerospace observers indicate that the newly lodged Rassvet-4 baseline is structured as an upgraded iteration engineered to resolve propulsion anomalies and orbital-raising limitations identified during the initial deployment flights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Constellation Architecture and Multi-Beam Specifications<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to technical documentation lodged with the ITU, the proposed Rassvet-4 constellation features an expanded orbital architecture designed for high-density spatial coverage:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Orbital Geometry:<\/strong> The network specifies 374 satellites distributed evenly across 17 orbital planes, with 22 spacecraft per plane operating at a circular altitude of 800 kilometers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Payload Transmission:<\/strong> Each satellite bus integrates a multi-beam communications payload capable of projecting 12 discrete transmission beams, providing reconfigurable regional coverage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Operating at the 800-kilometer altitude regime allows the proposed fleet to maintain low-latency data links while expanding single-spacecraft ground visibility across Russian and Eurasian territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Regulatory Filing and Future Deployment Roadmap<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filing advance publication materials with the ITU represents a required first step to secure non-geostationary orbit frequency registrations and coordination priorities before placing operational hardware into orbit. While Bureau 1440 and Russian space authorities have not officially announced Rassvet-4 publicly or scheduled initial launches, the regulatory filing establishes the technical blueprint for the country\u2019s next-phase sovereign broadband network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA \u2014 Russia has submitted a formal satellite network filing to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) for a proposed constellation designated Rassvet-4, according to a report published Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026, by aerospace analyst Chris Forrester. The previously unannounced regulatory filing details an expanded broadband network engineered by commercial developer Bureau 1440, intended to serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}