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User:Galactic Penguin SST/sandbox/Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 35

Coordinates: 62°55′39″N 40°34′32″E / 62.92750°N 40.57556°E / 62.92750; 40.57556
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Site 35
Launch sitePlesetsk Cosmodrome
Location62°55′39″N 40°34′32″E / 62.92750°N 40.57556°E / 62.92750; 40.57556
Short nameLC-35/1
OperatorRussian Space Forces
Total launches1
Launch pad(s)1
Launch history
StatusActive
Launches1
First launch9 July 2014
Associated
rockets
Zenit-2 (cancelled)
Angara A1.2
Angara A5

Site 35 is a launch complex at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia. Originally built for the Zenit rocket, it was not yet complete before the

The site was originally built for use by R-7A Semyorka missiles. The first launch to use the complex was an R-7A test on 21 December 1965, from Site 43/3. The first launch from 43/4 followed on 25 July 1967.

After its retirement from service as a missile base, it was converted for use as a space launch complex. The first orbital launch was of a Voskhod rocket with Kosmos 313 on 3 December 1969.

Both pads were damaged by explosions in the 1980s. At 16:01 GMT on 18 March 1980, 48 were killed when a Vostok-2M exploded during fuelling operations at Pad 4, ahead of the launch of a Tselina-D satellite. On 18 June 1987, a Soyuz-U rocket exploded at liftoff on Pad 3.[1] Both were rebuilt, and are in service as of 2009.

References

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  1. ^ Wade, Mark. "Plesetsk". Encyclopedia Astronautica. Retrieved 2009-03-18.