Russian specialists were seen in 2021 increased activity in space, said the Ministry of Defense, whose report leads RIA Novosti.
“Russian optical-electronic complex of detection of space objects” Window-M “, located in Tajikistan in the Sanglock Mountains (Mountain System Pamir) at an altitude of 2,200 meters above sea level, in four months of 2021 provided traffic control about 30,000 space objects “, – reported in the department.
For the entire 2020 year “Window-M” provided control of more than 25 thousand space objects. The capabilities of the complex allow you to fix objects at a height from 120 to 50 thousand kilometers.
In this case, controlled objects may not exceed the size of the tennis ball. “Window” carries out combat duty since 1999. In 2014, he was upgraded, after which his name changed to the “Window-M”.