Russia's Aerospace Forces Identify Over 20 Launches Of Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

MOSCOW, Oct. 4 (Bernama) -- Russia's Aerospace Defence Forces (VKO) identified over 20 launches of Russian and foreign intercontinental ballistic missiles in 2016, the Defence Ministry said Tuesday, according to China's Xinhua news agency.

"Moreover, the VKO has onducted 16 launches of spacecraft under the Russian Federal Space Programme, the Federal Target Programme GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System), and international cooperation programmes," the ministry said.

The ground-based forces of automated control complex of the VKO conducted over 420,000 sessions with Russian spacecraft constellation, with about 1,500 sessions per day.

According to the ministry, the specialists of the Main Space Intelligence Center found over 650 space objects, controlled the in-orbit delivery of more than 180 spacecraft and terminated ballistic existence of about 60 space objects.
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