meanwhile - Mr Rogozin the salesman
Russian Railways no doubt has deep pockets .... and very long railway tracks to maintain
and satellites for internet and observation etc will be very useful
pattern developing here .... Gazprom, Rosneft, Rus Railways .... all with huge networks ... and cashflows
all getting involved in the Sfera satellite program .... taking pressure off the Fed budget
why not ? exactly ... makes perfect sense ... B2B as your base customers
then the locals in remote areas get access as a big companies funded the setup of access to that area ... a no-brainer
(weird translation to me .... think he is really saying currently unused/unavailable satellite optical and data comms .... quantum? for a railway ? )
https://kosmosnews.fr/2022/04/28/developpement-de-lignes-de-communications-spatiales-optiques-une-cooperation-de-roscosmos-avec-les-chemins-de-fer-russes-rjd/
"Dmitry Rogozin, General Manager of Roscosmos State Corporation, and Oleg Belozyorov, General Manager and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian Railways Company, held a working meeting on the implementation of a joint space experiment. It is a question of developing spatial optical lines with a quantum communication channel.
"The subject is extremely tempting, it will ensure the complete transfer of huge amounts of information via undiscovered communication channels," said Dmitry Rogozin.
Oleg Belozyorov, in turn, said that even today railways cannot do without space technologies.
"For example, we are conducting an experiment to monitor the progress of the construction of our eastern test site using space satellite monitoring tools," said the director general of Russian Railways.
Dmitry Rogozin also informed the meeting participants about Roscosmos' promising projects, drawing particular attention to the Sfera multi-satellite constellation."
On the roscosmos side also participated Alexander Bloshenko and Yuri Urlichich."