Drones Damaged Russia’s Vladimir Space Communications Center

Ukrainian drones inflicted critical damage on Russia’s Vladimir Space Communications Center.

The center is located near the town of Gus-Khrustalny in the Vladimir region.

The General Staff of Ukraine reported that the strike took place on June 22. The drones had to travel approximately 650 km.

That day, Aleksandr Avdeev, the region’s governor, stated that residents of three apartment buildings in Gus-Khrustalny were evacuated after a Ukrainian drone crashed.

According to intelligence from the General Staff, the complex’s main antenna—a 25-meter parabolic antenna—and the antenna on the roof of the Main Hardware and Software Facility sustained critical damage.

The central part of the Main Hardware and Software Facility building also sustained significant damage; this section houses the satellite modem and multiplexer rooms, as well as the central switching node, to which fiber-optic communication lines connecting to other space centers are routed.

The Hardware and Technical Building No. 1 also sustained critical damage; it houses the transmission and reception complexes, the central switching system for the center’s antenna station cable routes, as well as equipment for cooling the transmitters and the main antenna’s electronics.

The Vladimir Space Communications Center provides control and support for the operation of Russian satellite communications systems and spacecraft.

Its infrastructure is used to transmit, receive, and process data from satellites, as well as to maintain communication with other ground-based space centers.

The center is part of Russia’s ground-based space infrastructure and plays a crucial role in ensuring the stable operation of satellite networks.

A strike on such a facility could affect data transmission capabilities, the coordination of certain communication systems, and the operation of some space services.

On June 22, Ukrainian drones also struck the Russian Dubna Satellite Communications Center in the Moscow region.