Gazprom Space Systems, JSC

SATELLITE SYSTEMS THAT COVER THE GLOBE

Joint Stock Company Gazprom Space Systems (known as JSC Gascom before December 2008), is one of two Russian national satellite operators holding 36% of the satellite capacity market in Russia. GSS was established in 1992 and its shareholders are Gazprom, the world’s biggest gas company, Rocket-Space Corporation Energia, the leading Russian space enterprise, and Gazprombank, one of the largest Russian non-state banks.

The company operates the Yamal Satellite Communications System, providing users with: • Satellite capacity worldwide, and • Satellite services in Russia (‘point-topoint’ links, TV distribution, VSAT networks, broadband, mobile backhaul, trunking, etc.).

Gazprom Space Systems’ first satellite, Yamal-100, was launched in 1999.

Today the Yamal Satellite Communications System consists of four satellites (Yamal-202, Yamal-300K, Yama-401, Yamal-402), a state-of-the-art telecommunications centre and VSAT networks in Russia. Its total satellite constellation capacity amounts to 248 equivalent transponders of 36MHz.

About a third of Yamal satellite capacity is concentrated in beams pointed over territories outside Russia. The geography of GSS clients encompasses around

Yamal-202 Satellite.

30 countries and Yamal’s capacity services are utilised in over a 100 countries. Although on the international market GSS provides pure capacity, the company has a number of partner teleport companies in Europe, the Middle East, Far East, Asia, Africa and America.

In September 2014 on the World Satellite Business Week in Paris, Gazprom Space Systems was recognised by the world telecommunications community as the Best Regional Satellite Operator that showed the most impressive growth in the preceding year, 2013.

The World Teleport Association ranked Gazprom Space Systems the third place in the Fast 20 Top Teleport Operators of 2014. And in 2009 according to the WTA official report, Gazprom Space Systems was selected as the Corporate Teleport Operator of the Year based on a 48% revenue growth rate in 2008. In 2014, the company’s revenue grew to about 108 million dollars, a growth rate of 24%.

The company’s next step in its constellation enhancement will be the Yamal-601 satellite aiming to replace the Yamal-202 satellite operating at 49E. In total at least five new satellites are planned to be launched by the year 2025.

Space Infrastructure GSS space infrastructure consists of four Yamal satellites - Yamal-202 (49°E), Yamal-300K (183°E), Yamal-402 (55°E), Yamal-401 (90°E). Yamal-202 Satellite Satellite: Yamal-202 Orbital slot: 49E Number of transponders: 18x72MHz C-band

This satellite has a semi-global coverage (Europe, Middle East, North Africa, South and South-East Asia) focussing mainly on the international market. Yamal-202 is optimal for arranging point-to-point connection and VSAT network for corporate customers having businesses in developing countries. It is also used for government organisations, for arranging trunks between information resource centres (mainly in Europe) and centres of resource consumption (in developing countries of North Africa,

Yamal-402 Satellite (European and Southern beams). Yamal-402 Satellite (Northern and Steerable beams).

Yamal-300K Satellite (Northern beam #1 and Steerable beam).

the Middle East and Asia), and for the distribution of TV channels.

Yamal-402 Satellite Satellite: Yamal-402 Orbital slot: 55E Number of transponders: 66 equivalent 36MHz transponders, Ku-band.

Yamal-402 covers Russia, the CIS countries, Europe, part of the Middle East and Africa to the south of Sahara. The satellite introduced the company into the African market. Together with highpowered beams, Yamal-402 has strong coverage that can connect Europe, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Its capacity is used to provide communications services to operators of pay TV, corporate sector, government organisations and NGOs. Almost a 100 VSAT-networks of diverse technologies and scale operate via this satellite in the EMEA region.

Yamal-300K Satellite Satellite: Yamal-300K Orbital slot: 183E Number of transponders: 18x72MHz Ku-band, 11x72MHz C-band

Yamal-300K at 183E brought GSS into the markets of the Western Hemisphere. The satellite’s wide contour fixed beams, covers the eastern territory of Russia, the western parts of North America and North of the Pacific Ocean where air and marine traffic are exceedingly busy. Such service zones make the beam ideal for aeronautics and maritime sectors.

The other fixed beam of Yamal-300K covers the Far East. It is particularly advantageous to mobile operators who develop backbone infrastructure for their networks in the region.

The steerable beam can be pointed over any region of South-East Asia, Australia, New Zealand or the island states of the Pacific. It has high power parameters and allows receiving TV signals to the dishes starting from 0.6m in diameter and creating VSAT networks with the antennae from 0.75m.

Ground Infrastructure The GSS ground infrastructure consists of a: • Telecommunications centre, and, • More than 900 satellite communications earth stations, operating in the interests of Gazprom Group, built on the sites of production, transportation, processing, storage and sale of gas.

The Telecommunication Centre in Shchelkovo, Moscow region is the fastest growing part of the company’s ground infrastructure. This site hosts the Mission Control Centre for all Yamal satellites, hubs, uplink stations for satellite communications, the satellite capacity monitoring facility and the Network Operations Centre, managing networks of Gazprom and other customers.

Additionally GSS is going to build its own spacecraft assembling facilities and start business in the sphere of assembling, integrating and testing of communications and observation satellites.

CONTACT

JSC Gazprom Space Systems (GSS) Russia, 141112 Moscow region Shchelkovo Moscow street, Bld. 77B

Victoria Ioda International Business Development and Sales Tel: +7 (495) 504-29-10 Email: ioda@gazprom-spacesystems.ru Website: www.gazprom-spacesystems.ru