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Russia creates 1st space surveillance system over arctic - Roscosmos

Moscow, April 28 (UNI) Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said that a state commission had accepted the Arktika-M satellite No. 2 into operation, making Russia the first in the world to create a space system for monitoring the Arctic region.
"Today, April 27, 2024, the state commission for flight testing of space complexes for socio-economic, scientific and commercial purposes reviewed the results of flight testing of the highly elliptical hydrometeorological space system Arktika-M with the spacecraft Arktika-M No. 2. Based on the results of the review, the state commission decided to complete the tests with the commissioning of the Arktika-M spacecraft No. 2," Roscosmos said in a statement on Saturday.
Russia for the first time in the world has created a hydrometeorological space system that provides continuous observation of the Arctic region, the statement noted.
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