2 February 2016, 12:10 GMT
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Russia’s Main Space Intelligence Center, a component of the Aerospace Forces, will receive new radars, optical electronics and advanced means of technical surveillance in the near future, its chief said Monday.
"The Main Center will receive new radar, optical and electronic means, the latest means of technical control and many others in the near future," Col. Andrei Kalyuta said in an interview with the Russian News Service radio.
The center’s main objective, he added, is tracking foreign spacecraft and space systems.
"But not least important is the monitoring of our own spacecraft to ensure their safe operation," the colonel stressed.
As part of last year’s efforts, the Main Space Intelligence Center’s more than 300 experts conducted around 2,000 special operations, in which 930 space objects have been detected and accompanied, Kaluyta assessed.
