We are talking about a single information database containing information about each space object
MOSCOW, September 10. /TASS/. 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-the apparatus of the Russian Defense Ministry launched by the Soyuz-2 carrier rocket.1b" from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. This was reported to journalists in the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense.
"After the launch into orbit of the spacecraft launched on September 9 from the Plesetsk cosmodrome by a Soyuz-2.1 b light-class launch vehicle, the officers of the Space Control Center began analyzing and processing coordinate and non-coordinate information about the new space object to accept it for escort by ground-based means of the Main Center for Space Situation Reconnaissance of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces," the military department said.
They explained that the main catalog of space objects is a single information database containing 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 artificial space objects at altitudes from 120 km to 50 thousand km.
The catalog contains information about 1,500 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.
Every day, to maintain the main catalog of space objects, specialists of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces process more than 60 thousand measurements, the department noted.
