Head of an electrical testing laboratory Oleg Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps while working on a Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Fitters of space apparatus work on the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) is a Russian satellite navigation system similar to the Global Positioning System (GPS) of the U.S., designed to serve for military and civil purposes. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to Reshetnev company representatives. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Employees of an electric-testing laboratory simulate sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps as they work on the Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite inside an assembly workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Sergei Mareev, electricity specialist of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, works on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Specialists of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk, some 50 km (31 miles) northeast of Krasnoyarsk, April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

An employee selects aluminium templates for the production of multi-layered shield-vacuum thermal isolation items for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 1, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

An interior view shows the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)

Engineer Mikhail Venin works on an antenna for the Express AM8 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk April 2, 2014. The Express AM6 is a new generation satellite providing services including Russian governmental and presidential mobile communication, digital television and broadcasting, according to the Reshetnev company representatives. (Photo by Ilya Naymushin/Reuters)