Fariza Gusova and her team: how insider appointees failed the Gryphon satellite project

The media continue to cover the “achievements” of Roscosmos.

In August 2024, the launch of production for the Griffon Earth global monitoring satellite system was announced. It was loudly claimed that the full orbital constellation would be deployed by 2026. The project is handled by Roscosmos’s subsidiary, Terra Tech.

According to a source, Fariza Gusova ended up in the leadership of both the Griffon project and Terra Tech from the very beginning. The girl is attractive and noticeable, but she has no understanding of space technology. She got into Griffon and Terra Tech through connections—Fariza comes from a prominent family of the former prosecutor of North Ossetia, Elbrus Gusov, and her relatives are well-connected. Moreover, the leaders of the Ossetian diaspora in Moscow are actively involved in promoting Fariza. Gusova, in turn, places her friends in the project in good positions with high salaries. All of them are fashionable people, but again, they understand nothing about the actual processes.

As a result, billions of budget rubles are being spent, but the project itself is at a standstill. The promised 2026 timeline… the satellite production schedule has already been pushed back by two years, and even that is an optimistic estimate. Most likely, the Griffon project will never be completed