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Missile Rangehead Activity Higher in December than tn November~ as Usual

Soviet mis-sileapace rangeheads saw mole launches inDee-ember 1969 _ihaa in Navembe-r 1969 ( Lja~ng qn page ) shy

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Month middot~onth 1-fr Ago 2- Yrs Ago D~~ oJ ~~f-Y ~~-~l tP~c 68J Pee 67

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of it-8 faJure putmiddot beca-use ss~s Ju~tes h~ve been relatively rare in recent yeats Themiddot SS-8 1 an oldemiddotr ruis-si1e is tlle only cryoge-nic 1CBN1 in the Somiddotbull~iet middot~pettat~_onal ~11vtt1tcrry lt $amiddota peen cteployed in only limited numilers

Range~-eaq aetivity in ~ece rnber 196-9 was ttem~~kabiy s~ilat to th~t of De~ember 196middot8 in -sev~-ral ways middot

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Some of these sJxtlilalbullities fgtarticulartlythe greatetnumber of launches i n December than in Nevemher would suggest thltil the Soviets were tryivg_to

meet some type opound commitmept b~fore the end middotoi the calendar year which in the USSR coinddes with the end o~ botih the armed forces h~aining year and budget (fiscal) year (NOR AD)(SECRET)

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L-------~---~-----~-----~GO$m05 3d~ s~ncce the launch ph-ase tends to cast doubt on the succes-s c~ middotfts- mlss~on C0smos 316 is th~ latest in a aeri~ll of maneuvefabl~ Soliet satgtellites launched by the SL-11 propulsion system (a modi~ied g~ t lYBMJ ~e sam_e system which iaunch~smiddot the Soviets 1 ftractional-orbit bomlt~rdinent systems However the s middotatcentllite is bel-lfl-v(d to h-ave ex-emiddot~ti - ~haQge opoundmiddot Q~bit p 9 WR 1 70)

_ C6smos 316 is unusual in that it - e only mem-ber of its series to be launched into ~n Orbit with an ilttl-i~~~on of ab~-ut 49 degr-~es It sue~ cessullv lalUched liredece-ssors had orbital inclinations -opound -62 to 65 degr-ees

Tbf e~act- mission ltgtpound1htS ~ezoies o man-euyePabltn sat-e11it-es 1 bemiddotliAved to be still b1 a testing phase ~s not known (NORAD) middot (SECREf)

Metsat ProgramApparentJy Being Upgraded Somewhat (U) middot

Although the Soviefs launched only two fl1eteorolQgicaLsa-tellites in 1969 Met-eor l on Z5 ~a~Ch Meleor 2 bn ~-~~tober) ndi~ations a~e that the USSR has been trying to upgra4e its ~ets~t pt~gr-a~ oncent which has neVer enjoy_ed a very high priority

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cmiddotover videb on command from the ground The head of Moscow s World Meteorologic-al Center has said that Meteor 1 carried a realshytime 11TVH system middot butthe type of system actually meant is not clearsince the Soviets have used the word TY11 to mean either a vidicon tube system or a ~ ecbalically scanning IR pointdetector A cernshy

manded real-time R scanner output wouid qot be new for- Sovi et middotsat shyellitesgt whereas a real-tirpe vidi~pp tube Q)itput middotyvoul_d If Meteor 1 c a rries r e al-tinie video it is probably a com m a nded read-out rather than a continuously operating system bull The Soviet$- are tripling tpe number of gronnd stations which will receiv ~ data fr-om their metsats The middotsingle statioll operating in the past at Obninsk (near Momiddotscow can recemiddotive data dmiddotumps during a maxlmum of 6 of a metEat1 ~ daily 147 orbits A station recen1ly built at Novosi bi-rsk1 Siveria is altea-dy rec-eiying m d~ta anq shoulds-oon receiye _video through a 348-e~eroent steercabie artaY fantmiddotenna sbown ori pag~ 36) The ~use of tllemiddotse tvomiddot stations would al~ow recepshytion of up to 9 data dumps per day A third stat ion ig to be bu ilt at Khabarovsk in the Soviet Jar East use of ail th~ee stations middotwiU e~fle reception -of at le-a st 13middot dumps pe -z day per metsat

Though the Soviets 1 weatln~ rsateliite sy~~em is probably being upgllathe radi~ally impr-oved metsats expected fromiddotm the USSB still have not appearedmiddot (Vmiddotarious) ($EGRET NFDReleasaple to NATO Aus amp NZ)

Cosmos 318 1st Soviet Spacemiddot middotLaunch of 1970 imiddotsa Recs~t lS) middot middot

Cosmos 3a8 the Sovlet~~)rrst spac-e eVerit rtJf 190 waa- launcenthed rom Tyuratam at abltgt~t 0920Z 9 January t91o A re cmiddot ov~rable military reconshynaisseince satellit~bull it canies a lbw-resolutLon camera sys~middot e-m and an ELINT package

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Ground Terminal for CommurncaUons Via Satellite to be Set Up in euba (tf)

M0scow has agreed to assisk inmiddot building a gmiddotrouud s~tation in Cubafor c0mmw1ications v ia satelljte under the t erfus of an agrecentmiddotrtnmt s-igned 011 9 Janlary The s tation will afford dilect Jn~lticenthannel t(flegaph and t ele shyphope links between t h_emiddot OSSR and Guba and eri~ble lttn exlt~bangmiddot e of TV proshygrams b etw~en the hwo C01tntdeS aCC9-rding to Pte ss reports This w~ill apparently oe the flr middotst Sbvi~t middotgrmiddotoulid station which the US$~ ~11 hav~ s~t np outside its ho~ders which wql atlow trwtr-wa~ c omrriutnlc~itions via sat~JHte An Orbita stition being est abhshecl in M~ngolmiddotia wi~i1 Q~ capable- ()tllw opound r~ceivingmiddot

Cuba a~d th e USSR in 1966 and 1~67 had ~nl(lounc ed ~eiT i nte nrtion to proceed with such ~ proj~middotct The demiddotclsfon t el ~middotoxre forward at this tirne rbmiddotay res tlt from a recent warming middoti~ pog1ic~lmiddot re~~ji~ns h EtweenrtF(e tii~o count~ie-s (CIA)

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Intercosmos 2 carries twO- spherical ion traps to measure the conce-nshytration of positive ions in space in a j-oint experiment conducted by Bulshygarian and Soviet scjentists R-ead ~ngs are being taken along the craft 1s 11 entire orbit 11 said TASS

In a jpint Soviet-Czechoslovak experimeat a hig]l-frequency probe is measuring middotthe temperature of ionQspheric electrons which study has shown middot are mwh 11hotter 11 than the ions

Information on the middotphysical pro~erbes- of the ionosphere is eXpected f rom Langmuir cylindrical probes abo~rd the sateHite in a joint Soviet-East German expedment middot

The satellite also Garries a tnansmitter operating on frequencies of 20005 and 300075 mh2middot This radio b~ilt b-y Eaist Germany mea~gtures the quantity of elech~ns to give a vertical pr0file oftJe atmos-tihere

Intereosm_9s 2 is bejng tr~cked said TASS by middotgrbund stations set up in ] Soviet cities-~ 2 Polish ~iti~s and in 1 city in eaeh of the other partiCibull pating nations -middotmiddot Bulgaria HUDga-ry- East Ger-many middotcuba~ Rp~nia and Czec-ho-s lovakia

S-pacecraft gear and systems were packe-d inside the s-pacecraft to middotthe m aximum extent middotin ~rdmiddoter to miQimize interference with tbe middotdata being taken outside themiddot spacemiddotc-raft by sensors For tlais rea$pn -said rASSmiddot Interco$shyrnos 2 wws powered by ch~mical h~tteries -~ot fOlar batt-erles (a-s was the case with Intexcmiddotosmos 1) sihce solar batte~y panals have to -be mounted outshyside the veh-icle middot

(Intercosmos 1 decmiddotayed into the Earthmiddot1-s atmosphere on 2 J~nuary Also suppo-r1ipg jQini S6vicentt-Eas]1emiddotrp E1-rQpemiddot-researeh it was said to h~we collected da~a for solar researeh middot) (FBI$) (OFFICIAL USE ONLY)

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