On July 17, 2015 RSC Energia and Gazcom Space Technologies signed a cooperation agreement aimed at improving the efficiency of utilizing the parties' resources in the development of communications spacecraft and Earth Remote Sensing (ERS) spacecraft. The parties will expand and deepen cooperation in the field of development of Yamal and SMOTR orbital clusters, relying, among other things, on the experience of the successful joint work to develop the Yamal communication satellite system (Yamal-100 and Yamal-200 projects).