Ground Control Station (GCS)                                                                                                                                 

Vitali Bahamolau

Deputy Chief of Technical Affairs

• Determination and implementation of the company's policy in matters of technical operation of the NSSC
• Development of action plans, instructional and methodical documents on operation of the NSSC
• Interaction with enterprises and structural units of the company on issues of the NSSC operation
• Organization and holding of seminars, meetings and consultations on issues of the NSSC operation
• Organization of proper operation of machinery and equipment.

Barys Dzemidziuk

Flight Director

• Verification and approval of lists of telecommands to be sent to the satellite
• Planning of satellite control operations
• Analysis of technical status of the satellite

Pavel Starovoitau

Deputy Station Manager - SCC Manager

• Control of the satellite and ensuring continuous communication with it
• Ballistic and navigation support of the mission
• Planning of activities, analysis and control of the satellite's technical status
• Development and technical support of satellite projects
• Development of international technical cooperation on the operation of communication satellites

Evgeny Ivanov

Head of the Technical Supervision Department

• Duty shift management and supervising
• Management of GCSs equipment availability for satellite control
• Analysis of basic GCS equipment parameters in standard and emergency situations
• Organization of round-the-clock duty watch on satellite management

Ivan Smuniov

Head of the Satellite Analysis  and Control Department

• Continuous control and monitoring of the satellite's status
• Maintaining of the given orbital position and operating modes of the satellite
• Satellite operation planning
• Analysis of the satellite's subsystems' technical status

Head of the Orbit Engineering Group

• Planning of the satellite's orbit control on all time scales (monthly, yearly)
• The satellite's actual orbit determination and prediction
• Calculation of required orbit control parameters for station keeping maneuvers

Alexander Armonik

Head of the center

• Satellite communication network operation
• The satellite's payload monitoring
• C- and Ku-band VSAT networks management and control
• TV and radio signals reception and monitoring
• TV signals' processing, coding, multiplexing and transmission to the satellite

Andrei Chaitsyn

Spectrum Management Engineer

• Coordination of the orbital-frequency resource
• International legal protection

Olga Leontieva

Head of the Communication Operations Control Center

• Monitoring of the satellite's frequency and power resource
• Ensuring trouble-free operation of measurement equipment
• Calculation of satellite communication link budgets
• Admission of users to the satellite's power and frequency resource

Andrei Yanovich

Head of TV and VSAT Department

• Reception and quality control of input signals from TV broadcasters and radio stations
• Processing, coding and multiplexing of TV signals
• Adding electronic program guides to TV channels of the program package
• Transmission of complete program packages to the satellite
• Traffic control
• Monitoring of TV signal received from the satellite for evaluation of quality of transmitted program package
• Organization of VSAT networks
• Provision of terminal equipment to VSAT users and instructing them on the terms of use
• Installation and network connection of VSAT terminals
• Control of VSAT terminals operation, monitoring of VSAT networks status, continuous maintenance of proper operating modes and technical parameters
• Processing of VSAT network users inquiries

Alexander Tsarikovich

Head of the department

• Participation in development, implementation and support of projects and software systems on the GCS based on the use of modern computer and communication facilities
• Ensuring trouble-free operation of computer facilities and equipment, automatic telephone exchange and data transmission networks
• Ensuring information security at all stages of it's creation, processing and transmission, in accordance with the company's information security policy

Sergey Kravchuk

Head of the department

• Ensuring trouble-free and correct operation of RF equipment, antennas and antenna systems
• Ensuring timely maintenance and repair of RF equipment, antennas and antenna systems
• Collection of information for effective implementation of tasks

Mikhail Kernasovskiy

Head of the department

• Realization of satellite capacity in the foreign and domestic markets on a permanent basis and upon request
• Provision of satellite services: communication links, corporate networks, DTH communication services (sd, hd)