“We hope to sign the satellite launch contract by the middle of April. If the contract is signed, the launch may take place at the end of 2018,” said Leonid Macridenko, the head of the Russian Space Monitoring Systems, Information & Control and Electromechanical Complexes (VNIIEM), according to the Russian news agency TASS.
Back in the 12th Russian International Aviation and Space Show (known by its Russian acronym MAKS) held in Moscow in August 2015, the Iranian company of Bonyan Danesh Shargh signed a preliminary agreement on building the system with the Russian companies of NPK BARL and VNIIEM, Press TV reported.
