Akademik Sergey Korolyov

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Akademik Sergey Korolyov
The academy Sergey Korolyov
The academy Sergey Korolyov
Ship data
Ship dimensions and crew
length
181.90 m ( Lüa )
width 25.04 m
Draft Max. 7.94 m
Machine system
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format 		8,820 kW (11,992 hp)
Transport capacities
Load capacity 7067 dw

The Akademik Sergey Korolyov ( Russian Академик Сергей Королёв , German transcription Akademik Sergei Koroljow ) was a ship built in 1970 to control and monitor the Soviet space program . It was named after Sergei Korolyov , the leading Soviet rocket developer of the 1950s and 1960s, in which which the United States and the Soviet Union a race delivered to the advance in the near-Earth space. Studies of the upper atmosphere and space continued from the ship.

During the times of the Soviet Union, the Sergey Korolyov Academy operated as a communication station for a whole fleet of such ships. This expanded the ability to track manned and unmanned spaceships and satellites orbiting the earth beyond the range of land-based Soviet surveillance stations. The academy Sergei Koroljow operated mainly in the Atlantic Ocean , namely to monitor trajectories and telemetry data as well as to create communication possibilities with cosmonauts .

The ship offered 1200 quarters and 79 laboratories in which 188 scientists did their work.

In 1975 the Akademik Sergey Korolyov was part of the American-Soviet Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP).

The communication ship was owned by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and had its home port in what is now Ukraine , where it returned after the fall of the USSR. At that time it was decommissioned, renamed Orol and from August 1996 scrapped in Alang (India) .

Web links

Commons : Akademik Sergey Korolyov  - collection of pictures

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Register Book of Sea-Going Ships 1982, USSR Register of Shipping, 1982, p. 34.
  2. ^ Norman Polmar: Guide to the Soviet Navy. United States Naval Institute, 4th Edition, Annapolis Maryland 1986, ISBN 0-87021-240-0
  3. ↑ Tracking sites and ships ( Memento of January 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Retrieved 6/13/2008
  4. ↑ Askar, Research ship Akademik Sergey Korolev (2006), Online , Accessed 6/14/2008
  5. ↑ SP-4209 The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project , (US) NASA, Online Article