MOSCOW, November 25. /TASS/.Sizes of the satellite groupings, their locations, the survey frequency and specifications cannot give comprehensively updated information on ice conditions along the Northern Sea Route (NSR), Deputy Prime Minister, Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yury Trutnev said.
"The insufficient number of satellites in the grouping, incomplete communication coverage. Presently, 11 satellites are monitoring ice and hydrometeorology situations on NSR," the press service quoted him as saying after the Maritime Board's meeting.
The current number of spacecraft, their location, frequency and specifications of the survey are unable to offer comprehensive up-to-date information about ice conditions, he said.
"One of the key tasks is to provide the Arctic and Russia's other remote and hard-to-reach territories with the satellite Internet," he continued. "I need to stress that conditions of satellite images and communications affect significantly the course of actions in the special military operation zone."
The Northern Sea Route is a shipping route in the Russian Arctic that runs along Russia's northern shores in seas of the Arctic Ocean (the Barents, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukchi and Bering Seas). It connects the Russian Federation's European and Far Eastern ports as well as the mouths of navigable Siberian rivers into a single transport system. NSR's length from the Kara Gate Strait to the Providence Bay is 5,600 km.