InfoTelesys Rescuing Rostelesat

InfoTelesys was already working in assuming parts of failed Russian Rostelesat project for use in our network. Rostelesat was a similar project to Motorola’s failed Iridium satellite phone project. From poor market analysis and a lack of understanding on how to apply technology, Iridium failed, and consequently, Rostelesat failed to obtain any support.

All InfoTelesys was taking from Rostelesat, was their satellite design; ITU assigned frequency and Russia’s expertise in launching and flying satellites. InfoTelesys would place our own transponders and communications systems on the new satellites and use them in an entirely different architecture and application.

The Rostelesat program has Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites. The InfoTelesys architecture also needs Geo-synchronous Orbit satellites (GEO). We were planning on acquiring other GEO satellites and building new ones for these functions.

Last November when InfoTelesys signed agreements to assume Rostelesat, we also sent Russia a letter stating that we were interested in acquiring Mir. Last week the Russian government invited us to present them our solution, which is the reason for this letter.

The “InfoTelesys Mir Plan” takes Mir’s modular architecture and converts each of the six primary modules into GEO satellites. InfoTelesys needs “Real Estate” in space. There is not much up there, and Mir meets many of our specifications. InfoTelesys would upgrade Mir’s power systems, stabilizers and place our communications equipment in Mir. Mir’s new mission would be the center of “The Next Internet™”. InfoTelesys would distribute Mir’s modules around the world in GEO locations:

When placed in InfoTelesys’ unmanned GEO locations, Mir costs us only a fraction of the current maintenance costs, and there are no associated risks in supporting human habitation in the InfoTelesys application.