Satellite Communication Network to Control Air Traffic on the Yamal Peninsula has been put into operation

Gazprom Space Systems completed all the planned works to create a satellite communication network on the Yamal Peninsula and put it into operation.

The main goal of the new network is to increase efficiency and safety of the air transportations on the Yamal Peninsula for the benefit of Gazprom in the conditions of the flights intensity permanent growth in the course of the new gas fields development.

The created network is dedicated to provide communications between the air traffic control towers and radio-relay VHF points of North Siberia Air Navigation — subsidiary of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State ATM Corporation — to provide the information exchange when arranging traffic control of the aircrafts (helicopters and planes) on the Yamal Peninsula.

The network will also be widely used to serve domestic and international routes of the civil aviation in the Northern latitudes.

Nine C-band satellite communication stations, including three new stations, are used in the network. Stations are operated via Yamal-201 satellite, which is located at the 90°E orbital position.

It is planned that network resources will be also used to provide the operation of the radio broadcasting automatic slave observation system of aircrafts traffic control, which is deployed by the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State ATM Corporation on the Yamal Peninsula.