This time we’re going to the place in the Orenburg region close to the Russian-Kazakh border to see how a remote sensing satellite on a heavy Russian ballistic missile RS-20 “Dnieper” is launched into space from the silo.
For citizens of the Orenburg region having dozens of mines with nuclear missiles nearby is not a nightmare but habitual reality. Their men maintain and guard them and live normal lives at the same time – have wives, walk with children, go to cafes…
This launch site was built seven years ago, today it keeps the heaviest Russian nuclear missiles RS-20 B “Voevoda” (SS-18 Satan according to the NATO classification).
This is a small space center to support the project “Dnieper”.
RS-20 was firstly launched to the orbit of a small and inexpensive satellite in 1999 from Baikonur. The missile was designed back in the Soviet time.
Such boxes are used for satellites in containers.
This is how they look like.
For seven years of the site existence they have launched seven missiles “Dnieper” for different near-earth orbits of 36 satellites built for twenty four states.
They still rely upon strong Soviet connections.
The column fueling satellite engines with heptyl.
They need protection because such fuel is very toxic.
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