A space satellite manufacturing plant will be built in the town of Shchyolkovo, just outside the Russian capital, Moscow Region governor Sergei Shoigu said on Wednesday, Aug 22.

“It will be a new production facility,” he said, adding that a research hub will also be created there.

The plant will build about 600 communication and observation satellites a year. It will provide about 1,000 jobs and will be “environmentally clean,” the governor said, RIA Novosti reported.