Cosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin

*Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin*
*(Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin)*
	The cosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin
Ship data
other ship names	Agar
Whereabouts	Scrapped in 1996
Ship dimensions and crew
length	232 m ( Lüa )
width	32 m
Draft	Max. 8.5 m
displacement	45,000 t
Machine system
Machine ; performance	13,870 kW (18,858 hp)
Service ; speed	18 kn (33 km / h)
Transport capacities
Transport capacities
Others
Classifications	Russian Maritime Register of Shipping
Registration ; numbers	IMO 7116286

The Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin ( Russian Космонавт Юрий Гагарин ; German cosmonaut Juri Gagarin ) was a Soviet ship for satellite positioning and control, which was named after the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alexejewitsch Gagarin .

The ship was built in 1970. The crew consisted of 360 men. The operator was the Soviet Ministry of Defense until the Soviet Union fell apart. The ship was then in Odessa as part of the Black Sea Fleet launched and scrapped finally 1996th

The ship was the flagship and the largest ship from the fleet of fourteen communication ships, such as the Kosmonavt Viktor Patsaev , the Kosmonavt Vladimir Komarov and the Akademik Sergey Korolyov and was used for communication with manned and unmanned spacecraft when they were not over the territory of the USSR . It also carried out studies of the atmosphere and space.

In 1975, the ship participated in the Soviet-American Apollo Soyuz Test Project .

literature

Sigmund Jähn : Space Experience , GDR military publisher , Berlin 1983

Web links

Commons : Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Transcription of the Russian ship's name according to the Soviet ship register : Register Book of Sea-Going Ships 1982, USSR Register of Shipping, 1982, p. 356 (English / Russian); consistent with the in English-speaking usual BGN / PCGN transcription .
^ Nicholas Whitestone: Marine Review, Volume 73 . Lehmanns Verlag, 1976, p. 192 : "Antenna systems of the Russian satellite tracking ship Kosmonaut Juri Gagarin"
↑ Seewirtschaft, Volume 7 . Verlag Technik, 1975, p. 634 : "the flagship of the Soviet research fleet" Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ""
^ ^A ^b Maik Hermenau: The tracking ships of the cosmic fleet. satellitenwelt.de, December 14, 2011, accessed November 4, 2013 .
^ AGE Yuri Gagarin (Project 1909) class. (No longer available online.) HarpoonHQ, archived from the original on August 13, 2008 ; accessed on November 3, 2013 .
^ ^A ^b Norman Polmar, Guide to the Soviet Navy , Fourth Edition (1986), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, ISBN 0-87021-240-0
↑ Tracking sites and ships. Suzanne McHale, accessed December 8, 2012 .
^ The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA, accessed July 28, 2009 .

[1] Transcription of the Russian ship's name according to the Soviet ship register : Register Book of Sea-Going Ships 1982, USSR Register of Shipping, 1982, p. 356 (English / Russian); consistent with the in English-speaking usual BGN / PCGN transcription .

[2] Nicholas Whitestone: Marine Review, Volume 73 . Lehmanns Verlag, 1976, p. 192 : "Antenna systems of the Russian satellite tracking ship Kosmonaut Juri Gagarin"

[3] Seewirtschaft, Volume 7 . Verlag Technik, 1975, p. 634 : "the flagship of the Soviet research fleet" Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ""

[satellitenwelt-4] A ^b Maik Hermenau: The tracking ships of the cosmic fleet. satellitenwelt.de, December 14, 2011, accessed November 4, 2013 .

[harpoondatabases-5] AGE Yuri Gagarin (Project 1909) class. (No longer available online.) HarpoonHQ, archived from the original on August 13, 2008 ; accessed on November 3, 2013 .

[polmar-6] A ^b Norman Polmar, Guide to the Soviet Navy , Fourth Edition (1986), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, ISBN 0-87021-240-0

[7] Tracking sites and ships. Suzanne McHale, accessed December 8, 2012 .

[8] The Partnership: A History of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. NASA, accessed July 28, 2009 .