MOSCOW, November 12. /TASS/. Production of domestic base stations is planned to be increased to 50,000 annually by 2028, Russian Minister for Digital Development Maksut Shadaev said.

"We already have three vendors," Shadaev said. "There are more than 10,000 stations already in total. We believe we will reach the figure over 50,000 per year in 2028. The deadline remains current in this sense so far and we do not postpone it," the minister said.

More than thirty spacecraft are already on the orbit, Shadaev noted when speaking about the Rassvet satellite constellation project. "We are more confident thus far that we will able to complete the first stage of constellation forming in 2028," he added.