By the end of 2023, it is planned to prepare a preliminary design of the system for ensuring the safety of space activities in the near-Earth space "Milky Way". The beginning of work on the TASS program became known from the adviser to the general director of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering (TsNIIMash) Maxim Penkov.

“Factors such as the advanced technical design of the system, its scale, the heterogeneity of technical means, from ground to space, as well as the need to attract competent development organizations that are part of the circuit of various federal executive authorities, determine the choice of the program-targeted option as the most preferable option. planning a federal project,” the adviser said.

According to Penkov, work is currently underway to attract co-executors to the implementation of the program.

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In August, materials from TsNIIMash presented at the Army-2022 forum reported that the creation of the Russian automated warning system for dangerous situations in near-Earth space, the Milky Way, would cost $2 billion.

In August, the general director of TsNIIMash, Sergey Koblov, said that the Milky Way integrated monitoring system being created in Russia would be more efficient than the current automated system for the prevention of dangerous situations (ASPOS) in space.