FW: launch from Svobodnyi

Jeff Hunt (jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com)
Tue, 4 Mar 97 13:32:44

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
>

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