Moscow. October 4. INTERFAX - It is planned to deploy more than a dozen specialized ground-based space controls of a new generation on the territory of Russia by 2025, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
"As part of the implementation of the program for the improvement and development of the Russian space control system, the space forces continue to work on the creation of specialized ground-based space control devices of a new generation. By 2025, it is planned to deploy more than 12 new optoelectronic and radio engineering complexes on the territory of Russia that implement various principles of detection and recognition of space objects," the report says.
According to the ministry, "currently, about 50 experimental design and research works on the creation of new generation systems and complexes are being carried out to re-equip the formations and military units of the space forces with promising weapons samples."
It is also reported that the national Missile Attack Warning System (SPRN) will be replenished with radars in Komi and the Murmansk region.
"Work continues on the creation of new radar stations of the missile attack warning system in the Komi Republic and the Murmansk Region," the report says.
Now combat duty along the line of the SPRN "is carried by the new generation Voronezh radar stations, created using high-factory readiness technology in the Leningrad, Kaliningrad, Irkutsk, Orenburg regions, in the Altai, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk Territories," the message says.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that "within the framework of combat duty to ensure the control of outer space in 2023, specialists of the Main Center for the Exploration of the Space Situation of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces detected more than 1,500 launches of foreign and domestic ballistic missiles and space rockets, monitored the launch into orbit of more than 2,274 spacecraft, provided forecasting and control the termination of the ballistic existence of about 450 space objects, three warnings were issued about dangerous approaches of space objects with spacecraft of the Russian orbital grouping."
It is noted that "special attention was paid to monitoring the composition and condition of orbital groupings of foreign space systems."
According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, "the combat crews of the Plesetsk cosmodrome conducted three launches of Soyuz-2 class space rockets with three military spacecraft."
Since the beginning of the year, specialists of the Main Test Space Center named after Herman Titov "have provided 13 launches of space rockets from the Plesetsk, Vostochny and Baikonur cosmodromes with the launch of 55 spacecraft into orbit."
This year, the on-duty forces of the ground-based automated control complex of the space forces conducted more than 400 thousand control sessions for more than 200 spacecraft, the report says.
The Russian Space Forces celebrate a professional holiday on October 4, this year they turned 66 years old. On October 4, 1957, the beginning of the space age was laid in the USSR - the first artificial Earth satellite was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome. The preparation, launch and control of the first satellite in an orbital flight was carried out by specialists of military formations of the Space Forces.
"Today, the organizational and space forces are part of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation and perform tasks as part of the army of Special-purpose Aerospace Forces, the Main Test Space Center named after Herman Titov, the Main Center for Missile Attack Warning, the Main Center for Space Situation Intelligence, as well as military units of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome. The training of professional officers for the space forces is carried out by the Military Space Academy named after A.F.Mozhaisky," the message says.
