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Word: plesetsk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1966-1966
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...Kettering firm, Perry quickly confirmed that Cosmos 129 had also been launched from a new site. With his students, he plotted its orbital path and determined that it intersected the others at 63° north latitude and 41° east longitude, a point near the town of Plesetsk, about 140 miles south of the White Sea port of Archangel. It was from this site, he was convinced, that all four of the mysterious Cosmos satellites had been launched. Though neither Russia nor any U.S. Government source has officially confirmed existence of the new launch site, the U.S. has known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Secret of Plesetsk | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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