Moscow-Sana
The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced the establishment of a space monitoring station on the territory of the Republic of South Africa under an agreement signed by a Russian company.
“The station is dedicated to discovering technologies and space debris in low, medium and high orbits around the Earth,” Sputnik quoted Roscosmos as saying in a statement today, pointing out that the station can detect what is floating in space around the Earth at an altitude of between 120,000 and 40,000 kilometers.
The observatory follows the detection of dangerous developments in near-Earth space. This Russian network must contain four observatories, the first of which was placed in the territory of Brazil.
Yuri Roy, general manager of the company that manufactures monitoring stations for a network that detects dangerous developments in space, announced last November that the Republic of South Africa had not responded to the pressures it was subjected to to refrain from establishing a Russian monitoring station in its territory.