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DECLASSIFIED UNDER AUTHORITY OF THE INTERAGENCY SECURITY CLASSIFICATION APPEALS PANEL, E.0.13526, SECTION 5.3(b)(3)
ISCAP APPEAL NO. 2009-068, document no. 124 DECLASSIFICATION DATE: February 25,2015
( ooWNGRADED .TO UNCLASSIFIED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE BY NORAD/NORTHCOM/CSO SEPTEMBER 2009
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Action on Proposed SovietSpace Tracking Station in AustraHa Suspended ··
Austral~a has suspended action an, a pr.opo~al to establish a Soviet space tracking atation in Au$tralia, according to the AustraJian Amba ssad<>r to the US. The proposal was made in 1960 by the Sovit;t ~4-cademy of Sciences, T:>ut action on it was put Off in i 963 in the. wake of a Sov'iet espionage scandal in A:u:straha. Australian interest in .the station was renewed in 19b5 when the government conside,red methods o:f irnproving .t:elations with the USSR.
The Soviets have not been able to establish a truly global spacetracking network because of ·difficulties in ananging for the e-s tablishment of tra<;:king stations in Free World countries. (State; CIA; NOB.AD) (.GOHFIDE:NTIAL)
Soviets Stall on Weather Satellite Pledge; Plan to Launch 25 Reported
The Soviet delegation to la&t month 1 s meeting of the WMO (World Meteorological Organization.) was extremely reluctant to dil;;close .any details of the USSR 1 s plans for laimches of i'lleteorologit:a:l satellites and their instrument~tiori, althottgh the speeifi9 purpose o:! the n:leeting \<.,as to. allow the US and USSR to present inft -rma.tion as to what ty-pe of satellitecollected data they would be able to contribute to :a global wcathe:~; system during 1968-1971. Tl'a! Soviet presentation at :the meeting was an exc ~. l1ent smnmary of US plans and a<:;tiviHes in this field, but C'Ontained nothing which... c .ould be spe.ci£ical1y -related to the Soviet program.
In a private .conversation, a Soviet delegate .mentioned that his eountry plans to launch 25 meteorolo.gical sa:tell:ites. No time fram.e was mentioned, but presumably ·the Soviet delegate was speaking of oper:atibh~tl satellites launched d·uring the period<>( interest to the WMO meeting. 1968.-1971. Experimental and/or operational vehicle's couJd, .oJ course, be la-un.ched before 1968.
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ment which it mad.e with the US J:ast .October to e:xch.ange satellite weather inf o.rmat ion with the US ~'within a Je w months. 11 The Sovie~ h,ave n.0t yet
· launche d ·a n operating we.ather s atellite, although reportedly, some of their spacecraft have collected infrared data, which might be of meteorological inte.r<:st, a1:J.d 3 of their Cosmoses (Nos. 44, ~8, and 100) may have been
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prototypes of meteorological sat.ellites, since th ey were inj e cted in:to orbits ~vhich h a d a ltitudes suita ble for m eteorologic a l $a tellites . (CL-'\ ; NORAD) {COt:>lFIDENTIAL)
Cosmos 116 Probably a Scientific Vehicle, as Claimed
Cosmos 116, which ·t h e Soviets launch·e~ from the Kapustin Ya.:t Missile Test Range at ab0:ut 10052 7 26 April~ is believed t o be a scie~tific
r e search vehicle as the Soviets claim. It "Yas injected int o an orbit <:Jf a bout 49 d egrees :inclinat i on, · which is sta.pd~rd ! or Kapustin Ya;r-launched satellites ~. T he orbital pe~iod of the new cra,ft i s 91.85 m.inute s. · (NORAD) . (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION -- Releasable to US, UK & Canada)
Third 'Mql niya t.:. Type .•
Communications SateiHielaunched The USSR 1 s third Molniya 1 was .launched from the T yuratam Missile
Test Range at about 071 o,z, 25 ApriL The Soviets have annOUi':l.ced that · the craft i$ conti11uing th~ Molniya l program with more hs t in:g of the · sysi;ems. and apparatus .C.a rried by the satellite_ and of the e tluip m e n.t at the associated gr ound sites. · ·:
The new·Molniya, l.ike its two predecess·or.s, was first injected into a parking orbit . -- and then ejected by the Soviets1 11 interplanetaryll stag e into a highly elliptical or:Qit with a period of neariy 12 hou-r·s which c.aus es the satellite to :nearly r~pe.at its Earth trace onc·e each 24 hou-rs. It i s thus . in position on c e each dil:y to provide .,line-,of-sigh t relay of c o:mm:qnications between point s within the USSR for about 9-10 hours.
A ss um ing that t'he third Molniya. l is performing satisfactorily,. the Sovi_ets will probably have to adjust ib orbital peri(Dd with a slight al:nount of ~ocket thrust, (as th.ey c;il d .with the' !{tst tw:e . .Mqlniyas) to p;roy1de the spacecraft the required nomirta ll2-hour orbitc;ll pei:iocr. . "
TASS has announced the-following parameters for the third Molniy a 1~
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(21, 500 n. rn.) Pe-rigee 499 kilometers
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The new communications satellite was launched 1 year and 2. days after the first Molniya 1 (23 April 1965) and a little more than omonths after the second one (14 October 1965). Thus the latest event maintains the apparent schedule of la-unching Molniyas about 6 months a,part. The first two Molniyas, it is believed, are no longer transmitting.
-cosmos 41, which the Soviets launched on 22 August 1964 into an orbit similar to those of the Molniyas, was· probably a failed attempt to launch the first vehicle of this series. (NORAD) (SECRET NO FOREIGN DISSEMl..NATION -- Releasable to US, UK &. Canada)
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