According to a report in Kommersant, Russia will launch a new-generation early-warning satellite, codenamed Tundra and identified as 14F142, by the end of 2014. The launch will begin deployment of a new system, EKS (Edinaya Kosmicheskaya Systema, Integrated Space System), which will provide early-warning as well as some other functions (probably space surveillance or, as some suggested, secure communication). Kommersant reports that the satellite will be delivered into orbit by a Soyuz-2.1b launcher with a Fregat booster stage. According to the report, the new system will have true look-down capability and will detect missiles launches originated from the sea as well as from the U.S. territory. Tundra will be deployed on a highly-elliptical orbit, but earlier reports suggested that the complete system could include geostationary satellites as well.
The flight tests of the EKS system were expected to begin in 2009, but it then slipped to 2011-2012. Now it looks like the system is finally ready for initial deployment.
EKS will replace satellites of the old US-KS and US-KMO systems - as of June 2014 only two 73D6 spacecraft of the US-KS (Oko) system, deployed on highly-elliptical orbits, were operational. The last 71Kh6 geostationary satellite of the US-KMO system was lost in March-April 2014.
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By the way, Russia ordered design of the new ship for supervision over ICBM, ABM and SL launches -- "Duplet" project:
http://zakupki.gov.ru/44fz/filestore/public/1.0/download/priz/file.html?uid=FDC2964E9DCC00ACE043AC110725A2E3
http://zakupki.gov.ru/epz/order/notice/ok44/view/documents.html?regNumber=0173100000814001185
The new-generation early-warning space system is designated by 14K032 index:
http://d902.iki.rssi.ru/theses-cgi/thesis.pl?id=703
Other 47Ts6 index mentioned in this text is former system:
http://www.lawmix.ru/mskjude/3413
Thank you. Interesting. I've never seen designations 47Ц6 or ЧС-КМС before.
It's too bad the Kometa paper (the first link) doesn't show the images.
Pavel, I think that "ЧС-КМС" designation is result of incorrect scanning from the printing version of the document. Most likely in the original there was УС-КМО (US-KMO) index.
Yes, that would explain it. I didn't realize it was a scanned document.
Deputy Head of Space Command Gen. A.Nesterchuk declared that by 2018 Russia will have 10 new 'EKS type' early-warning satellites:
http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/voensovet/1445704-echo/
Yes, I should post it. I have serious doubts about 10 satellites, though.
I have serious doubts too, especially since the first launch of the Tundra satellite is postponed already from 2014 to 2015... :-)