All verified mentions of this organization in source documents.
Slingshot Aerospace and the French company Aldoria have monitored Luch satellite activities that operate for the Russian Ministry of Defense and the FSB.
Stilsoft's main customers include Russian security agencies such as the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Internal Affairs, National Guard, and Federal Security Service (FSB).
The FSB is identified as the main client for Stilsat-1, leveraging imagery for intelligence operations in Ukraine.
Stilspace received a license from the FSB on March 29, 2024, allowing it to handle state secret information.
Multiple beam torus antennas (MBTAs) are present at the GRU site in Klimovsk, the FSB site in Dubovyy Rynok, and the former KGB site in Dobroaleksandrovka.
Antenna names found in procurement documents related to FSB sites include Kentavr, Tantal, Persei, Eskort, and Rebus.
Few parabolic antennas at GRU and FSB sites are covered by radomes.
Companies involved in building antennas for the FSB include NII Radio, OKB MEI, and NPP ATS.
The FSB operates two satellites, Luch and Luch-5X, for space-based COMINT collection.
The FSB operates another Russian satellite eavesdropping network.
NII Radio was awarded a contract by the FSB's 16th Center for a project named Rebus-2, indicating close ties with the FSB.
The FSB is primarily a domestic security and counterintelligence agency, not typically involved in foreign satellite eavesdropping.
Anatoliy M. Somov, affiliated with NII Radio, is also a professor at the FSB Academy and has contributed to research on satellite antennas.
The FSB's 16th Center was involved in SIGINT functions inherited from the dissolved Federal Agency of Government Communications and Information (FAPSI).
Olimp is managed by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).