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  • Engineer Mikhail Venin works on an antenna for the Express AM8 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
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    An engineer works on an antenna for the Express AM8 satellite in Zheleznogorsk

    Engineer Mikhail Venin works on an antenna for the Express AM8 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
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  • Specialists of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
    2/11

    Specialists of the "Kvant" research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite in Zheleznogorsk

    Specialists of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
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  • Fitters of space apparatus work on the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite navigation system similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S., designed to serve for military and civil purposes. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    3/11

    Fitters of space apparatus work on GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    Fitters of space apparatus work on the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite navigation system similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S., designed to serve for military and civil purposes. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
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  • An interior view shows the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    4/11

    An interior view shows the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    An interior view shows the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
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  • Employees of an electric-testing laboratory simulate sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps as they work on the Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    5/11

    Employees of electric-testing laboratory simulate sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps as they work on Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    Employees of an electric-testing laboratory simulate sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps as they work on the Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
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  • Sergei Mareev, electricity specialist of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, works on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
    6/11

    Electricity specialist of "Kvant" research-and-production enterprise, works on solar battery for Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite in Zheleznogorsk

    Sergei Mareev, electricity specialist of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, works on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
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  • Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
    7/11

    Chief engineer of "Kvant" research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite in Zheleznogorsk

    Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
    REUTERS
  • An employee selects aluminium templates for the production of multi-layered shield-vacuum thermal isolation items for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    8/11

    An employee works at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    An employee selects aluminium templates for the production of multi-layered shield-vacuum thermal isolation items for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    REUTERS
  • A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    9/11

    A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    REUTERS
  • Head of an electrical testing laboratory Oleg Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps while working on a Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    10/11

    Head of electrical testing laboratory Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight inside assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in Zheleznogorsk

    Head of an electrical testing laboratory Oleg Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps while working on a Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
    REUTERS
  • Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ENERGY)
    11/11

    Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 satellite in Zheleznogorsk

    Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ENERGY)
    REUTERS
Engineer Mikhail Venin works on an antenna for the Express AM8 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Specialists of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Fitters of space apparatus work on the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite navigation system similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S., designed to serve for military and civil purposes. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
An interior view shows the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Employees of an electric-testing laboratory simulate sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps as they work on the Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Sergei Mareev, electricity specialist of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, works on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS TELECOMS)
An employee selects aluminium templates for the production of multi-layered shield-vacuum thermal isolation items for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. Picture taken April 1, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Head of an electrical testing laboratory Oleg Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps while working on a Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS)
Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the "Kvant" (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. Picture taken April 2, 2014. REUTERS/Ilya Naymushin (RUSSIA - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS ENERGY)
Reuters

The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to representatives from the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company. The new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite is being built at the Reshetnev company's large-sized mechanical systems center in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk. (Reuters)