Moscow. October 4. INTERFAX - More than 1,450 spacecraft were launched into orbit in 2021 under the control of the Space Forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported.
"As part of the combat duty to ensure the control of outer space in 2021, specialists of the Main Center for the Exploration of the Space Situation of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces carried out more than 3,500 special works to control changes in the space situation, during which they discovered and accepted about 1,700 space objects for escort, monitored the launch into orbit of more than 1,450 spacecraft," the message says.
Also, specialists of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation provided forecasting and monitoring of the termination of the ballistic existence of about 270 space objects, issued 15 warnings about dangerous approaches of space objects with spacecraft of the Russian orbital grouping
"Special attention was paid by specialists of the Main Center for the Exploration of the Space Situation to monitoring the composition and condition of orbital groupings of foreign space systems, as well as conducting experiments in orbits with spacecraft of foreign states," the military said.
It is reported that during the current year, more than 110 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space missiles were detected by the on-duty means of the Russian missile attack warning system, specialized means of space control and missile defense systems.
"Specialists of the Main Test Space Center named after G.S. Titov provided 15 launches of space rockets from the Plesetsk, Vostochny and Baikonur cosmodromes, with the launch into orbit of 258 domestic and foreign spacecraft," the ministry said.