In pictures: How to build a satellite in Russia

Andrei Khrustov, chief engineer of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research and production enterprise, inspects a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

An employee selects aluminium templates for the production of multi-layered shield-vacuum thermal isolation items for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Specialists of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise work on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems facility in Zheleznogorsk. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Sergei Mareev, electricity specialist of the “Kvant” (Quantum) research-and-production enterprise, works on a solar battery for the Express AM6 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Engineer Mikhail Venin works on an antenna for the Express AM8 new generation geostationary telecommunications heavy satellite at the large-sized transformed mechanical systems centre of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

An employee walks past the Ukrainian “Lybid” (Swan) geostationary telecommunications satellite inside an assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Fitters of space apparatus work on the Ukrainian “Lybid” (Swan) geostationary telecommunications satellite inside an assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Employees walk behind an antenna of the Luch space satellite. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

A milling-machine operator produces aluminium details for space satellites at a workshop of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems company. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Fitters of space apparatus work on the GLONASS-M space navigation satellite inside an assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems in Zheleznogorsk. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Head of an electrical testing laboratory Oleg Trifonov makes preparations before simulating sunlight by means of forty 1000-watt lamps while working on a Gonets-M low-orbital communication space satellite. Ilya Naymushin / Reuters

Get an inside look of the assembly workshop of Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems in the Siberian town of Zheleznogorsk.