U) A Limping Giant Russian Military Space in the First Half of the 2020s

Although the Araks program has its roots had been due to changes in both the spacecraft in the 1970s, the development of the latest radar- concept after the completion of the preliminary carrying incarnation of the spacecraft started around design and the technical assignment for the project’s 2012—before the annexation of Crimea—when the next development phase, known in Russia as OKR Russian indu. [...] Based on public records of litigation between would improve navigation accuracy down to 30 the Ministry of Defense and the prime developer ISS centimeters, according to the designer general of Reshetnev, the Klyuch project experienced delays the GLONASS system, Sergei Karutin.66 As of 2022, due to lack of coordination of technical assignments the accuracy of the GLONASS system for civilian for the. [...] Today, According to the Ministry of Defense, the satellites from that platform, took place the were intended to study the artificial and natural separation of a small spacecraft intended effects of space on the Russian spacecraft and to for the inspection of the condition of a calibrate the radar systems of Russia’s Air and Space Russian satellite. [...] The transmission of target of the inspection referenced in the Ministry of instrument and telemetry data about the condition Defense’s official statement.86 of the registrar satellite had also been conducted.”88 84 Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Ministry of Defense, “A Spacecraft Developed for the Ministry of Defense Was Launched on June 23, 2017” [23 июня текущег. [...] the feasibility of its development, catalog critical Both the secrecy level around the Pilot-MMKK project technologies required for the implementation of the and the available information indicated that in its project, and list its practical missions, including the conceived form, the spacecraft resembled the X-37 delivery, servicing, and return of cargo from orbit.