Akademik Sergei Korolev

The Akademik Sergey Korolyev

The Akademik Sergey Korolyev (Russian Академик Сергей Королёв, German Akademik Sergei Korolev transcription ) was a 1970 -built vessel for inspection and surveillance of the Soviet space program. It was named after Sergei Korolev, the leading Soviet rocket developer of the 1950s and 1960s in which the United States of America and the Soviet Union provided a race to the advance in the near-Earth space. From the ship from further studies of the upper atmosphere and outer space were made.

In the Soviet Union operated on the Akademik Sergey Korolyev as a communication station in a whole fleet of such ships. This extended the opportunity to pursue manned and unmanned spacecraft and satellites that orbited the earth out of the reach of Soviet land-based monitoring stations, from. The Akademik Sergei Korolev was operating mainly in the Atlantic Ocean, namely to monitor trajectories and telemetry data and to create communication opportunities with cosmonauts.

The ship offered quarters in 1200 and 79 laboratories, in which 188 scientists went about their work.

In 1975, the Akademik Sergey Korolyev part of the US-Soviet Apollo - Soyuz Test Project was ( ASTP ).

The communications ship was owned by the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and had its home port in today's Ukraine, where it returned after the fall of the USSR. At that time it was decommissioned, renamed to the name Orol and scrapped from August 1996 at Alang (India).