MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Russian Space Forces oversaw putting over 800 spacecraft into orbit in 2024, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday.
"While on space surveillance duty, specialists from the Main Space Surveillance Center carried out over 3,000 special missions in 2024 to monitor changes in the space environment, in which they detected and tracked over 1,800 space objects, controlled putting over 800 spacecraft into orbit, and forecasted and monitored the termination of the ballistic existence of over 1,100 space objects," the statement said.
They particularly focused on "controlling the composition and status of foreign orbital groups, and orbital experiments with spacecraft of other countries," it said.
"Timely warnings and decisions prevented collisions of spacecraft from the Russian orbital group with other space objects," the statement said.
On-duty forces performed over 120,000 spacecraft control sessions, it said.
"More than 50 research and development projects are underway to develop next-generation systems and complexes in the coming years for rearming military units and formations of the Space Forces with advanced armaments," the ministry said.
"Next-generation specialized ground-based space surveillance systems are being designed in the Space Forces as part of the program aimed to improve and develop the Russian space surveillance system," it said.
"The intensive development of next-generation command and measurement systems is underway to re-equip certain command and measurement complexes of the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Center. The commissioning of unified command and measurement systems will help transition to new spacecraft control technologies for the Russian orbital group and drastically reduce the number of modifications of the previous generation technical control systems," the ministry said.