In "Roskosmos" told about space debris in orbits around the Earth

The corresponding statement was published in the Telegram channel of the state corporation.

It is noted that "the trajectory of movement of almost all objects over 10 cm in the Earth's orbits is controlled by the automated warning system of dangerous situations in near-earth space (APSOS OKP)."

“It detects space debris and functioning spacecraft in automatic mode and determines their movement parameters using 36 telescopes of various diameters as part of ten ground-based space monitoring stations in Russia, Armenia and Brazil,” Roscosmos said.

The company said that "there are three to ten messages every day about the proximity of Russian spacecraft to potentially dangerous objects."

“In order to exclude the possibility of a collision, specialists can correct the spacecraft's orbit if such a function is provided for in its design,” added Roskosmos.

Earlier, the general director of the Precision Instrumentation Systems Research and Production Corporation, Yuri Roy, said that by the end of 2021, a Russian optoelectronic complex for detecting space debris would be put into operation in South Africa.