COSMODROME " SVOBODNY ":  OPERATIONNEL SINCE 5 YEARS








MOSCOW, March 1.  / Corr.  RIA " Novosti " Edouard Pouzyrev /. Today,
the cosmodrome " Svobodny ", a site of experimentation locates in the
Extreme-East, celebre its 5 years.




The principal goal of its creation, on the basis of division old of
missiles, " consisted has to widen the possibilities of Russia as
regards launching of the space apparatuses has vocation differente ",
has one indicates has RIA " Novosti " with the service of press of the
Troops of the strategic fusees Russian, RVSN.




According to calculations', launchings from this site, locates
definitely more at the south that the cosmodrome of Plessetsk, in the
North of the European Part of the country, make it possible to put on
orbit 25% of more than payload with the same expenditure in energy.




Currently, the cosmodrome of " Svobodny " has a complex of preparation
for the shooting of the missiles of light class Start-1 from the
mobile installations of type of Topol, and another complex, Strela,
are in building site.




The first shooting of the Start missile carrying the Zea satellite has
ete carries out on the site on March 4, 1997.  These the last two
months, two foreign space apparatuses of search, the suedois Odin and
the israelien Eros-1A, have ete lances since " Svobodny ".




At term, estimates the commander as a head of the RVSN, Vladimir
Iakovlev, the cosmodrome will be able to carry out launchings of
fusees of middle class and heavy, of which most modern, Angara.