PROBABLE EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLE TRACKING FACILITY KOLPASHEVO, USSR

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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2003
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: July 1, 1967
• Content Type: REPORT

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PHOTOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION REPORT
PROBABLE
EARTH SATELLITE
VEHICLE TRACKING
FACILITY
KOLPASHEVO, USSR
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PROBABLE EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLE TRACKING FACILITY, KOLPASHEVO, USSR
This repost is in response to NSA require-
ment NSA/SOC/R99-67 which requests a com-
plete description of the newly identified Probable
Earth Satellite Vehicle (ESV) Tracking Facility
at Kolpashevo, USSR (Figure 1).
The Kolpashevo Probable ESV Tracking
Facility (Figures 2 and 3) is the ninth ESV
tracking facility 1/ identified in the USSR to
date. This facility is 125 nautical miles (nm)
northwest of the Tomsk and 1 nm north of
Kolpashevo at 58-19-45N 082-53-OOE.
The large tracking building in this facility
supports a 50-foot dome and is identical in
appearance to those observed at other ESV
tracking facilities; however, at each of the other
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facilities, there are 2 tracking buildings. Fig-
ure 4 is a ground photograph of the similar ESV
tracking building at the Simferopol ESV Tracking
Facility at 45-03N 033-53E. No other tracking
buildings identified with either the ESV system
or the Molniya space communications system 2/
have been observed in the area. Two rhombic
antennas are generally oriented in an east-west
direction and they probably correspond with the
Moskva area.
The facility cannot be negated on available
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FIGURE 3. LAYOUT OF THE KOLPASHEVO PROBABLE EARTH SATELLITE VEHICLE TRACKING FACILITY.
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most of the support buildings were
complete, but the interpretability of this photog-
raphy precluded the identification of the ESV
tracking building. The ESV tracking building,
but without its dome, and a security fence were
first observed o
At that time, the major part
of the construction of the facility appeared to
be externally complete.
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appeared to be on the ESV tracking building
and to be externally complete. The construction
of the probable telemetry buildings, designated
4 and 9 on Figure 3, was first observed on
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telemetry building 4 was under
roof and the footings for telemetry building 9
were observed. Telemetry building 4 was
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