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BAKU, Oct. 2 The Milky Way system for monitoring outer space and preventing dangerous situations in space will be able to conduct up to 15 million measurements of near-Earth orbit per day in search of space debris, said the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov.
“The system allows up to 15 million measurements to be carried out per day and ensures high reliability of the presence of artificial or natural objects in space in order to prevent collisions,” Borisov said during a session of heads of space agencies at the International Astronautical Congress in Baku.
He noted that the system will be global in nature and can be created with broad international cooperation.
According to Borisov, countries that join the project will receive all the necessary information for the safety of their national space groups.
In April, Borisov announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the creation of the federal Milky Way project, the purpose of which is to track space debris in orbit.
As noted in Roscosmos, the Milky Way is conceived as an international system where each participant will be able to provide its own infrastructure for monitoring near-Earth space and receive in return all the necessary information to ensure the safety of its orbital group. The second task of this system is to prevent asteroid-comet danger.