Rassvet has the potential to significantly improve the country’s digital sovereignty and drone warfare prowess Russia is preparing to deploy dozens of homegrown satellites this year to expand a low-orbit broadband network that President Vladimir Putin says “doesn’t fall short of” Elon Musk’s Starlink and “may even surpass it in some ways.” The cluster, made up of Rassvet ( “Dawn” ) satellites, sits at the center of Moscow’s push to build a sovereign space umbrella that bolsters national