Moscow. February 5. INTERFAX - Launched on Saturday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome by the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle.1a" the spacecraft is included in the Main Catalog of Space Objects of the Russian Space Control System (SCCP) VKS of the Russian Federation, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation told reporters.
"Specialists of the Space Control Center of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces have entered information about the Kosmos-2553 spacecraft into the main catalog of space objects of the Russian space control system," the ministry noted.
The military department reported that after the launch into orbit, the officers of the Space Control Center (CCCP) 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 the Exploration of the Space Situation 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 1,500 indicators of the characteristics of each space object, including a set of orbital 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.
