SUN STREAK PROJECT 5196 SESSION NUMBER: 01 SOLO VIEWER: 052

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• Publication Date: March 26, 1990
• Content Type: REQ

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SECRET/NOFORN
PROJECT SUN STREAK
WARNING NOTICE: INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED
PROJECT NUMBER:
5196 (Tng)
SESSION NUMBER:
1
DATE OF SESSION:
26 MAR 90
DATE OF REPORT:
26 MAR 90
START:
1043
END:
1102
METHODOLOGY:
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VIEWER IDENTIFIER:
052
1. (S/SK) MISSION: To describe the target si,te (Soviet Shuttle Launch)
in Stage 3 terminology, working solo.
2. (S/SK) VIEWER TASKING: Encrypted coordinates?only.
3. (S/SK) COMMENTS: No Physical IncleMencies. 052 "doorknobbed" the
site very strongly throughout most of the session, finally settling onto
the main shape gestalts in Stage 3.
4. (s/sr) EVALUATION: 3
5. (3/BK) SEARCH EVALUATION: N/A
MONITOR: 018
HANDLE VIA SKEET CHANNELS ONLY
SECRET/NOFORN
CLASSIFIED BY: DIA (DT)
DECLASSIFY: OADR
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A24 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1988 ?
Soviets Launch Shuttle
For 2 Unmanned Orbits
A picture of the gleaming black-
and-white Buran, which outwardly
looks remarkably similar to the U.S.
space shuttle Discovery, was pub-
lished by the Communist Party
newspaper Pravda yesterday. The
newspaper said that the Energia
rocket was programmed to send the
shuttle back to earth if one of its en-
gines failed.
Unlike Discovery, which made a
four-day manned flight in Septem-
ber following the 32-month period
of inactivity caused by the Challeng-
er disaster in January 1986, Buran
is not equipped with its own booster
rockets. It has only small engines,
used for steering in space.
Pravda predicted that the most
difficult part of the operation would
be bringing the shuttle safely back
to Earth. The shuttle will land on a
special landing strip made out of re-
inforced concrete that is nearly as
wide as a football field. The U.S.
program has not included launch of
an unmanned shuttle.
A successful testing of Buran
could help the Soviets in their am-
bitious program for the construc-
tion of space stations and space
launching pads for the exploration
of other planets.
On Saturday, cosmonauts Vladi-
mir Titov and Musa Manarov broke
the world space endurance record
by remaining on board the orbiting
Mir space station complex for 326
lays.
? The Soviet space program has,
wever, also experienced several
.gnificant setbacks in recent
months. In September, the crew
aboard a joint Soviet-Afghan mis-
sion to the Mir station was stranded
smarooned in space for a day be-
cause of a failure in the computer-
powered landing systems of their
Soyuz-TM module.
In Washington, staff writer Kathy
Sawyer reported:
Americans experts who study the
Soviet space program have ex-
pressed surprise at what they per-
ceive as a major risk the Soviets ap-
pear to be taking with this launch.
"They have 10 or 12 major wick-
ets?major new things?they've
got to get through on this mission,"
said author James Oberg, who had
predicted the Soviets would first fly
a mock-up or "shell" of a shuttle be-
fore risking a fully equipped model.
The launch phase could be par-
ticularly risky, experts said, be-
cause this will be only the second
operation of the giant Energia
booster.
Also, some observers believe it
may not be possible to throttle the
Soviet booster engines.
Unlike the American shuttle en-
gines, which may be throttled, the
Soviet shuttle may have to charge
through the period of maximum
stress at full throttle, experts said.
The Soviets have little experi-
ence with hypersonic flight.
The experts added that during
the period of the shuttle's reentry
to earth the craft may travel up to
25 times the speed of sound.
They said the craft's onboard
computers must respond correctly
and unaided to the forces the shut-
tle encounters.
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Soviet shuttle awaits launch at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Central Asia.
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