{"id":1012617,"date":"2026-06-06T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012617"},"modified":"2026-06-06T08:44:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:14:55","slug":"russia-plans-to-launch-its-smaller-version-of-starlink-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/russia-plans-to-launch-its-smaller-version-of-starlink-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia plans to launch its smaller version of Starlink next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia plans to launch its own, smaller version of Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink satellite broadband system next year, Alexei Shelobkov, CEO of Iks Holding, the company developing the service, said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good \u200cnews is \u2060that \u2060it is already being created. Satellites are already being \u200blaunched. In the coming weeks, we will begin testing, and \u200bas promised, it will start operating commercially in 2027,&#8221; Shelobkov told a panel discussion at the \u200bSt. Petersburg Economic Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia plans to launch its own, smaller version of Elon Musk&#8217;s Starlink satellite broadband system next year, Alexei Shelobkov, CEO of Iks Holding, the company developing the service, said on Friday. &#8220;The good \u200cnews is \u2060that \u2060it is already being created. Satellites are already being \u200blaunched. In the coming weeks, we will begin testing, and \u200bas promised, it will start operating commercially in 2027,&#8221; Shelobkov told a panel discussion at the \u200bSt. Petersburg Economic Forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1012617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012642,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012617\/revisions\/1012642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}