Forward from FPSpace listserver regarding Zeya launch Jeff Hunt <jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com> --- On Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:13:06 -0500 Dima Leshchinskii <leshchinskii@insead.fr> wrote: >This is from today's OMRI digest: > >INAUGURAL LAUNCH FROM SVOBODNYI COSMOSDROME. Russia carried out its >first launch from the new Svobodnyi cosmodrome in Amur Oblast on 4 >March, sending a Zeya military satellite into orbit aboard a Start-1 >booster rocket (a modified SS-25 ballistic missile), international >agencies reported. The Svobodnyi space center, located at a former >strategic nuclear missile base about 100 km from the Chinese border, was >opened a year ago.It is intended to reduce Moscow's dependence on the >Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan.The launch was protested by >environmentalists and the government of the neighboring republic of >Sakha (Yakutiya), where one of the rocket's stages was scheduled to >fall. -- Penny Morvant >-- >Dima Leshchinskii, PhD Programme, INSEAD >Bd. de Constance, Fontainebleau 77305 FRANCE >phone: 33-1-60-72-4000, ext 4911, fax 33-1-60-72-4242 >E-Mail: MAILTO:leshchinskii@insead.fr > -----------------End of Original Message-----------------