MENSURATION DATA ON AND BETWEEN SELECTED ITEMS AT LAUNCH COMPLEX B, SARY-SHAGAN MISSILE TEST CENTER, AND AT NARO-FOMINSK ABM/SPACE RADAR SITE B

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: NGA Records (Formerly NIMA)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T04759A009700010014-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 23, 2003
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: August 24, 1970
• Content Type: MF

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2 August 1970
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, P0)+/SPO, NSA
SUBJECT Mensuration Data on and Between Selected Items at Launch
Complex B, Sary-Shagan Missile Test Center, and at Naro-
Fominsk ABM/Space Radar Site B
REFERENCE. : NSA/SOC/R-05-71
(NPIC Project 250831)
1. This memorandum is in response to your request for mensural infor-
mation on certain electronics components at launch complex B, Sary Shagan
Missile Test Center and the DOGHOUSE transmitter building at Naro-Fominsk. 25X1
2. The location of the screen-like structure at launch facility C,
launch complex B, Sary-Shagan Missile Test Center (SSMTC), is shown in
Figures-1 and 2. The screen was oriented on azimuths of 0/180 degrees.
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chronology of the screen-like structure's existence is as follows:
a. It was first observed on
structure was not present on
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b. The screen or panelled surface was probably removed
from the framework by However, its removal from
c. Only the framework remains as of
3. The straight line distances measured between the center points
of selected items at launch complex B, SSMTC, are portrayed on Figure 2.
(NOTE: Figure 2 is not a rectified plot, but is drawn to scale). The
letters and numbers refer to annotated Figure 1 in this memorandum. They
are also related to annotated items listed in Figures 5 and 7 in NPIC
document The screen-like structure is shown in Figure 3,
NPIC document Distances provided from the TRY ADD buildings
to selected items used the vertical axis of the radome as a base point for
mensuration.
4. The height of each of the towers (annotations 4+7 and 48, Figures
1 and 2) at launch complex B measured
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SUBJECT: Mensuration Data on and Between Selected Items at Launch Complex
B, Sary-Shagan Missile Test Center, and at Naro-Fominsk ABM/
Space Radar Site B
5. The height and location of the tower in front of the DOGHOUSE
transmitter is shown in the sketch captioned Figure 3. (The tower is
believed to be a water tower that has been present since at least
Interpretable 0 coverage of this area prior to
was of such small scale that neither the presence nor absence
of the tower could be confirmed. Also a line of sight between the trans-
mitter and the tower was blocked by trees until sometime between
and
6. For further information, please contact
NPIC,.
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