now we are in the center of parallel design, deputy general designer mikhail valov in a few kilometers from us, well, the skivd satellite is in orbit. in order to contact mikhail, the signal needs to travel 16.00 km, while the delay from... will be minimal. mikhail, hello, please tell us about the satellite thanks to which we are talking to you now. good afternoon, alexander. 12 spacecraft are enough for us to completely cover the russian federation with continuous satellite communications. in addition, within the framework of this spacecraft we have installed a number of instruments and useful equipment load, promising, domestic design. this apparatus allows us to carry out a lot of experiments, such as, say, organization. video communication with you, such as checking operating modes in different directions. this system works like this: a signal from a cell phone is transmitted to a base station, then sent to a satellite, and then returned to the ground to the base station of the interlocutor, the data transfer speed reaches 6 megabits per second. low delays are achieved due to the f