Dome (space system)

2022: Launch of a new military satellite

On November 2, 2022, the Russian military-space forces launched the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle. According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the spacecraft will deliver a new military satellite to Earth orbit.

On Wednesday, November 2, at 09 hours 48 minutes from the state test cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region, the combat crews of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces launched the Soyuz-2.1b middle-class launch vehicle with a spacecraft in the interests of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the ministry said.

Russian Aerospace Forces launched a satellite

The launch was made in the interests of the military department. Officially, the purpose of the payload being launched into low-Earth orbit has not been announced.

According to an expert in the field of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics Anatoly Zuk, during this launch, the sixth satellite of the Kupol system, designed to control ballistic missile launches, could be launched.

As a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS, a total of nine new devices should be involved in the Kupol system. The "Dome" is designed to replace the discontinued Oko and Oko-1 space missile attack warning systems (SPRN).

The Russian SPRN consists of two echelons: space, which currently includes four Tundra satellites, and ground, consisting of a network of stations of Voronezh the "" type, covering all missile-hazardous directions with its radar field. The main purpose of the system is to detect and escort ballistic missiles fired through the territory of the Russian Federation or its allies as soon as possible.

According to Igor Ozar, general director of the Rocket and Space Corporation (SRC) Energia, the devices launched into a highly elliptical orbit control the launch areas of ballistic missiles "in the mainland and waters of the World Ocean."^[1]

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