ZALA «GEOCOSMOS» is ready to provide Russia with independent communication and navigation

ZALA company Press conference at TASS dedicated to the «Wings of Sakhalin - 2026» forum»has unveiled plans to scale a unified information environment for robotic systems based on the communication and navigation system «GEOCOSMOS».

Deputy General Director of ZALA AERO JSC Sergey Lyustarnov announced that as early as this year, a network of ground-based software-defined stations will begin to expand in the Sakhalin Region to cover key transport corridors and industrial centres. These plans were confirmed by the Governor of the Sakhalin Region, Valery Limarenko:«We have big plans for the development and deployment of this large system across the Far East. We are starting with Sakhalin, Kamchatka, the Amur Region, and then throughout the entire Far East.», — said Limarenko.

«GEOCOSMOS», which has been in development for over 10 years, is a hybrid infrastructure that combines a satellite and a fully autonomous terrestrial network, independent of risks in space. The solution fully meets the objectives of the national project «Unmanned Aerial Systems» and is aimed at implementing the President’s instruction to create a unified digital information space.

The system is already being produced today, but the company is deliberately restraining the pace of production until the regulatory mechanisms are finally approved. «We are artificially slowing down production until key decisions are made,» Lyustarnov explained, «but our capacities allow us to quickly ramp up volumes and meet market needs.» At the same time, «GEOCOSMOS» already demonstrates one of the highest levels of localization in the industry: all software, circuitry, radio modules and antennas are domestically developed, critically important components are fully Russian, and the share of imported secondary components is consistently being reduced to zero.

«GEOCOSMOS» has already been operating in several regions of Russia for two years, daily proving its reliability even under conditions of total suppression of satellite signals and mobile communications. Further deployment, the speaker emphasized, will proceed together with state customers — the system will become the infrastructural foundation of a seamless digital sky, guaranteeing the country’s technological sovereignty in the critically important field of communication and navigation for unmanned aviation.