Responsibilities of the command included missile attack warning, space surveillance and the control of military satellites.
Located in Krasnoznamensk outside Moscow it is responsible for controlling Russia's military satellite constellation.
[5] It is also responsible for the testing of new equipment and has a network of remote monitoring stations.
Subsumed under it are a number of radar stations, with two, Gabala and Balkhash, located outside Russia.
Subsumed under it are several space surveillance only facilities such as Okno and Krona.