Word: tyuratam
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...satellite had been launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter to the Brit ish magazine Flight International, Perry reported that Cosmos 112 could not have been launched from either Tyuratam or Kapustin Yar, the two known Russian launch sites, both of which are in the southern part of the Soviet Union. Instead, he suggested, it had been launched from a more northerly site-perhaps the southernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Barents...
...that the biological aspects of manned space flights "be attacked with vigor," and since then had a major hand in every flight involving living creatures, from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to last month's launching of two dogs in still-orbiting Cosmos 110; of undisclosed causes; reportedly in Tyuratam, U.S.S.R...
...Chapin knew that Russia's Canaveral is in the area around Tyuratam, east of the Aral Sea, and that the angle of orbit of the shot to the Equator was 65° in the direction of Siberia. From this he could construct the orbit once around the earth. He also knew that the elapsed time of the flight was 89 minutes, and could thus figure that the earth rotated on its axis 22½° in this time. Using these figures and constructing the orbit on a transparent globe, Chapin, a trained architect and self-trained geographer, decided that...