Managing FPV via GEO SatCom by the Enemy

Russian developers recently presented a combined FPV-CTVP solution with a compact, but not miniature, satellite communication terminal.

Although contraband channels allow the aggressor country’s army to obtain Starlink terminals, their area of application is still limited to the occupied territories of Ukraine. The enemy has not yet gained mass access to their own flat terminals with AESA. Therefore, specialists are forced to look for available alternatives. And sometimes they find them...

At the “Archipelago-2025” intensive, which took place from August 7-17, 2025, in Skolkovo, the “Chornaya Karakatitsa” team from SPbSUT lifted a heavy multicopter into the air, on the top platform of which a spherical, radio-transparent fairing was installed. Underneath it was a satellite subscriber module, the RS-30M, from JSC “ISS” named after academician M. F. Reshetnev. An onboard camera was connected to the FPV-CTVP neuro-encoder, the video feed went through the RS-30M to the “Yamal-601” satellite, and the HD stream reached the control center.