Commissioning will take place in 2026
The warning system for dangerous situations in near-Earth space (ASPOS OKP) should be improved by the end of 2025, and the commissioning of the updated system should take place in 2026, as announced by Roscosmos.
“The creation of the third stage of ASPOS OKP should be completed in 2025 with two stages of testing – preliminary and interdepartmental. If they are successfully carried out and the specified requirements for the system are confirmed, a decision will be made to put the modernized ASPOS OKP into operation from the beginning of 2026,” noted the press service of Roscosmos.
The complexity of the situation in space is steadily and rapidly increasing, so Roscosmos does not stop working on the development of ASPOS OKP.
The warning system for dangerous situations in space will be improved
“The basis of the ASPOS OKP will be the modernized main information and analytical center, which concentrates intelligent systems for processing information about space objects, as well as various optical-electronic means of monitoring OKP located in different parts of our large country and beyond.”
ASPOS OKP has been operating since 2016 and includes ground observation points, and a data collection and processing complex. The Russian Federation plans to create an updated automated warning system for dangerous situations in near-Earth space, which will be called the “Milky Way”. It will include 65 telescopes, as well as a space segment.
