{"id":559061,"date":"2026-03-25T05:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559061\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T05:26:10","slug":"russia-challenges-starlink-with-launch-of-16-low-orbit-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/559061\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Challenges Starlink With Launch of 16 Low-Orbit Satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia said on Tuesday it had launched 16 low-orbit satellites as Moscow seeks to build a rival to Elon Musk\u2019s Starlink network.<\/p>\n<p>Russia remains far behind Starlink, which, since its first launch of operational satellites in 2019, has grown to more than 10,000 satellites in orbit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>JOIN US ON TELEGRAM<\/p>\n<p>Follow our coverage of the war on the <a class=\"inarticle_link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/Kyivpost_official\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Kyivpost_official<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bureau 1440, the Russian aerospace firm developing a low-Earth-orbit satellite system for global broadband data delivery, said it launched its first batch of 16 operational satellites on Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe launch of the first devices of the target group is a transition from experiment to the creation of a communication service,\u201d it said in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Soviet Union led early milestones in the space race, launching the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 and sending Yuri Gagarin into space in 1961 as the first human to orbit Earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Russia\u2019s space program struggled with funding shortages, corruption and complaints from young engineers about poor management.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Ashlee Vance\u2019s 2015 biography of Musk, Russian officials dismissed Musk in 2002 as not credible, spurring him to find a way to undercut Russia\u2019s space launch fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia said on Tuesday it had launched 16 low-orbit satellites as Moscow seeks to build a rival to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-559061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}