Russia was left without a space detection system launches of ballistic missiles after the last two satellite system "Eye-1" ceased operations in Janua

[DARPA]

Russia was left without a space detection system launches of ballistic missiles after the last two satellite system "Eye-1" ceased operations in January 2015. The launch of Sputnik United Space System (CEN) "Tundra", which will replace "Oka", will take place no earlier than June 2015, wrote on Wednesday, February 11, "Kommersant", citing a source in the space industry.
System "Eye-1" is part of the missile attack warning, in its composition was six satellites in geostationary and highly elliptical orbits. Last geostationary machine is out of order in April 2014, the two remaining satellites in highly elliptical orbits have worked for a few hours a day and served a term in excess of ownership.

The first satellite of the new system "Tundra" is expected to launch into orbit in 2013, but the start was postponed several times. The main reason for the delay, according to the publication, - technical unpreparedness apparatus, and therefore the risk to the launch did not want any customer (troops Aerospace Defense) nor the prime contractor (a corporation "Comet", responsible for the payload).

The new system, unlike its predecessor, will be able to more accurately determine the area of defeat ballistic missiles, with thanks to the command and control over it will be possible to give a signal of retaliation.

As assured source in the Defense Ministry, the loss of the space of the warning system will not affect the country's defense as "space train allows you to pinpoint the start of enemy missiles by about a minute before it will make the radar station (the main train early warning system (EWS) - approx. "Heathcliff"). "

Earlier, Deputy Defense Minister Yuri Borisov said that, despite the aging space echelon EWS through ground radar Russia has "practically no unprotected areas."