MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russia marks Space Force Day annually on October 4. On December 1, 2011, the national Space Force became part of the Russian Aerospace Defense Force, a newly-established arm of the service.
"More than 30 development projects on creation of systems and complexes of the new generation in the coming years are being implemented in order to reequip [Russian] Aerospace Forces' command and military units," the ministry's press service told RIA Novosti on Saturday.
The press service also noted that command-measuring systems of the new generation are actively being developed for the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre, which controls Russian orbital group spacecraft, numbering 140 satellites, including 90 military.
The Space Force emerged as an independent arm of the service in 2001 and was called upon to promptly notify supreme military-political leaders about missile attacks, to monitor outer space and the situation in separate missile-defense districts, to repel an enemy attack in and from outer space and to support peacetime and wartime operations of the Russian Armed Forces.
