Space Forces
Identification
This record matches the Russian Space Forces (Kosmicheskie voyska), the space branch inside the Aerospace Forces (VKS) re-established on 1 August 2015. Open reporting places the command element in Moscow, while Krasnoznamensk/Golitsyno-2 in Moscow Oblast hosts the Titov Main Test and Space Systems Control Centre that serves as the operational nerve center of the spacecraft-control network. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/2160599?utm_source=openai))
Command
Open-source reporting shows Aleksandr Golovko was appointed commander of the Space Forces and deputy commander-in-chief of VKS in August 2015. Retrieved reporting from 2021, June 2023, and April 2024 still identifies Col.-Gen. Aleksandr Golovko with that title, which is consistent with the metadata; however, I did not retrieve a fresh official command list dated 2026. ([tass.ru](https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/2160599?utm_source=openai))
Mission
The command’s verified functions are satellite launch support, in-orbit control of military and dual-use spacecraft, missile-attack warning, and space-object surveillance. TASS reported that in 2025 Space Troops duty systems detected more than 1,300 ballistic-missile or space-rocket launches, monitored more than 3,200 space objects, and Titov-center crews supported 15 launches that placed more than 40 spacecraft into orbit; in October 2024 the Titov center said it controlled more than 100 spacecraft, including GLONASS and the Russian ISS segment. ([tass.com](https://tass.com/defense/2025135))
Network
The placemark spread is consistent with a nationwide subordinate command-and-measurement network, not a single base. RussianSpaceWeb traces that network from Kaliningrad to Kamchatka and identifies Krasnoznamensk as the coordinating hub; Kommersant described the force structure as including the Krasnoznamensk main center, multiple separate command-and-measurement complexes, and a Tambov arsenal. Several metadata examples are corroborated in open sources: v/ch 85906 near Shakhi in Altai is described as a separate measurement point feeding data to Krasnoznamensk, v/ch 14129 is registered in Ulan-Ude, v/ch 92626 is registered in Kaliningrad Oblast, and the 28th Space Forces arsenal is documented in Tambov Oblast as v/ch 14272. ([russianspaceweb.com](https://www.russianspaceweb.com/kik.html))
Confidence
Assessment: this record is best interpreted as the Space Forces headquarters/command layer in Moscow with a dispersed national infrastructure beneath it. At least one communications placemark is plausible in open sources—the closed city of Molodyozhny is publicly associated with the 176th Satellite Communications Center—but the broader set of satellite-communications and optical-surveillance placemarks is not corroborated in the reviewed sources as strongly as the OKIK/OIP and arsenal sites, so those specific attributions should be treated as lower-confidence. ([kommersant.ru](https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/285788))