The Frontline with Jerome Starkey
Oct 15, 2026 · 20 min · 11 segments
Ukraine has sent multiple Flamingo Missiles into Putin’s space satellite factory in Samara as a Wildberries warehouse in Koledina, Moscow Oblast, goes up in flames. Philip Ingram stands in for Jerome…
It's where they develop the Soyuz-2 vehicles used to launch satellites into space.
The site was built in the Soviet era and is the birthplace of Russia's first spy satellite launched into space, the Yantar, launched in 1974.
This led to the creation of, uh, Rasvelt, which is a low Earth orbit, or LEO, internet satellite constellation, which allows Russia to control drones and other devices in the frontline.
Russia hasn't got access to, uh, a lot of the key components that it would have to import to bring that in.
That's why we've seen advances by the Ukrainians on the frontline, and that's why we've seen the Russians stopped in many places of the frontline.
If Russia can get this new system in space and they can start to use it, then the, the, um, uh, successes on the frontline from the Russian perspective may increase.
It's where they develop the Soyuz-2 vehicles used to launch satellites into space.
The site was built in the Soviet era and is the birthplace of Russia's first spy satellite launched into space, the Yantar, launched in 1974.
This led to the creation of, uh, Rasvelt, which is a low Earth orbit, or LEO, internet satellite constellation, which allows Russia to control drones and other devices in the frontline.
Russia hasn't got access to, uh, a lot of the key components that it would have to import to bring that in.
That's why we've seen advances by the Ukrainians on the frontline, and that's why we've seen the Russians stopped in many places of the frontline.
If Russia can get this new system in space and they can start to use it, then the, the, um, uh, successes on the frontline from the Russian perspective may increase.
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