RKS: Universal ground stations of command and measuring systems

2024: Modernization of command and measuring systems

The Russian Space Systems Holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) is modernizing the command and measuring systems of the ground-based automated spacecraft control complex for scientific, socio-economic purposes and measurements. These systems will come to replace the exhausted technical resource and obsolete equipment. This was reported to the RKS on January 30, 2024.

RKS specialists are creating domestic universal ground stations of command and measuring systems. Their main function is to control space devices in low Earth, geostationary and highly elliptical orbits, as well as receive them To the earth information from their target systems.

The main economic effect of the modernization is to reduce the cost of creating and operating the main units of equipment, their unification and organization of serial production. Technically, this gives a plus for timely maintenance, repair and replacement of equipment in current working and emergency situations. Strategically - Provides sustainable and secure management of an increasing number of spacecraft while reducing the development time and cost of building and operating them. said Maxim SHCHERBAKOV, Deputy General Director, General Designer of RKS for Ground Systems and Complexes.

The development of working design documentation has been completed in the RCS, prototypes are being collected and manufactured, tested and prepared for integration into an existing structure. Serial production of universal ground stations of command and measuring systems to replace exhausted complexes is planned to be launched by the end of 2025.

The ground-based automated spacecraft control complex for scientific, socio-economic and measurement purposes includes a number of command and measurement points located throughout the Russian Federation from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin, as well as on the territory of the Vostochny and Baikonur cosmodromes.

The tasks of the ground space infrastructure include obtaining information on the technical condition of the launch vehicle, upper stage, spacecraft, receiving and processing information from target systems, generating and issuing control commands to the spacecraft at all stages of flight, starting from preparation of launch and launch into orbit until completion of work with the vehicle.