“At the moment, we have our entire orbital group — there are 165 spacecraft,” Rogozin quoted RIA Novosti as saying.

He noted that a significant part of the devices has a defense purpose.

“There are civilian satellites,” he added.

Earlier, Rogozin said that the state corporation found out how a hole appeared in the household compartment of the Soyuz MS-09 ship, but will leave this information secret.