Russia is all set to double the number of space missions as the year 2017 approaches.

Director General Igor Komarov highlights that Roscosmos - Russia's state space organization responsible for the country's space missions will be doubling the amount of launches for the upcoming year.

According to Space Daily, Director General Komarov made it clear last Wednesday that Roscosmos aims to achieve high as the corporation is planning to send more number of rockets to space in the year of 2017.

"The launch program for the next year comes with a considerable increase [in space launches]. Next year, we will effectively see the number of launches double," Komarov announced.

Komarov assured that the team is very well acquainted with the fact of efficient ground infrastructure in order for successful launches. The Director General has also made it clear that all essential steps have been taken for smooth launches of the spacecrafts.

As the year kicks off, the initial launch is programmed for the first month of January at Kazakhstan's Baikonur and Guiana space centers.

The Plesetsk Space Centre will begin active space operations in February. As far as the Vostochny Cosmodrome is concerned, a large amount of half-finished work is still pending.

Roscosmos is the Russian governmental organization which deals with Russia's intensive aerospace research and analysis. In the previous year of 2016, Roscosmos was acknowledged in launching 19 space missions out of which 18 were deemed successful and one was failed.

The failed mission was named as Progress MS-04 and marked the end of the year 2016 in terms of last space missions.

The Director General seems to be very hopeful as far as the upcoming space launches are concerned. Necessary ground dealings have been initiated already for successful space missions, but the success and failure of the impending space missions is still unknown. Till now the Russians have been positive in terms of space launches and their success rate comes at the rate of more than 95%.