Moscow. June 26. INTERFAX-A new-generation Russian military satellite launched on Friday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome has been included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
"Specialists of the Space Control Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces have entered into the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian space control System information about a new space object - a spacecraft of the Russian Defense Ministry launched by a Soyuz-2.1 b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk cosmodrome," the military department noted.
After the spacecraft was put into orbit, the Russian Defense Ministry clarified, the officers of the Space Control Center began analyzing and processing coordinate and non-coordinate information about the new space object in order to accept it for escort by ground means of the Main Center for Space Situation Reconnaissance of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces.
The main catalog of space objects of the SCCP is a single information database containing coordinate and non-coordinate information about each space object. The main catalog is intended for long-term storage of orbital measuring radar, optical, radio engineering and special information about space objects of artificial origin at altitudes from 120 km to 50 thousand km.
The catalog contains information about 1500 indicators of the characteristics of each space object, including a set of orbit elements sufficient to predict its movement with the necessary accuracy, an international identifier number, data on the time and place of launch, the type of object, purpose, mass, size, etc.