“We hope that from next year there will be funding, 7 billion rubles have been allocated in the budget to start work,” he said in an interview with “Russia 24”.
He expressed the hope that in two or three years, demonstrators of the latest devices will be assembled, which "will be fundamentally different" from the products that are currently being launched.
In the summer, Alexander Bloshenko, the executive director of Roskosmos for science and promising programs, said that the Sphere program is ten groups of spacecraft with a total number of more than 550, which will be located in different orbits.
These groups will be formed in such a way as to solve all the socio-economic problems that the country faces today, he added.
He also said that the Marathon satellite constellation, which will be created under the Sphere program, "will be able to provide services for finding people."