Yuri Borisov was fired from the position of Head of Roscosmos

“Yuri Borisov was fired by the general director of the State Corporation of the Roscosmos Space Industry,” said the official Kremlin telegram channel in a statement published in the official Telegram channel. The reasons for the resignation are not revealed there.

Most Roscosm employees did not know about dismissal until Thursday, February 6, a source of RBC, familiar with the situation in the state corporation. According to him, “everything happened on one night.” The decision was made in the context of uncertainty with the construction of the National Space Center in Moscow, whose cost is “increasing,” added the interlocutor of the publication.

Bakanov, who has been the position of deputy director of the Ministry of Transportation since April 2022, has been appointed new Chief of Roscosmos. The corresponding decree was signed by Vladimir Putin.

Previously, Bakanov directed the “Postal Logistics Company” (“daughter” of the “Post Russian”), in 2012-2019 he was the head of the company “Gonets”, which is the unified operator of the communication and domestic recovery systems created By order of Roscosmos. In 2019-2021, Bakanov directed the Department of Digital Development of the Ministry of Transportation.

Borisov headed Roscosmos on July 15, 2022, replacing Dmitry Rogozin to this position. Before this, Borisov for more than four years was Vice Primer Minister, who supervised the cosmos and the defense industry.

In the first Borisov meeting with the leadership of Roscosmos, it was observed that the state corporation has the task of creating a Russian orbital station, determining the technical aspects of the promising media. “We must take all this to the final result, which will become a showcase of the corporation’s achievements,” Borisov emphasized.

At the beginning of December, Borisov said that in Russia, until the end of 2030, a satellite internet project will be launched, similar to Starlink, Ilona Mask,. He pointed out that Russian companies do not “have an end in themselves and carry out some records” in the field of development of the satellite Internet, but there is a task to guarantee quality by providing “the minimum volume of services necessary in the interest of The economy, defense and security. ”