With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite internet. That prominence has sparked some rivalry, and not least with other world powers—including Russia.

In a televised interview on Wednesday, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it is pushing full steam ahead on an alternative to Starlink, Reuters reported . , Dmitry Bakanov said that Roscosmos has partnered with Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, to develop a low-Earth orbit satellite system for global broadband data delivery.

“Several test vehicles in orbit have already been inspected and the production ones have been modified accordingly,” Bakanov said. “We are also moving at a rapid pace in this direction.”

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