SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE AND ROCKET DEVELOPMENTS

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: EARTH
• Keywords: USSR
• Keywords: SPUTNIK
• Keywords: SOVIET
• Keywords: SOVIET UNION
• Keywords: DEVELOPMENTS
• Keywords: SATELLITE
• Keywords: DELEGATES
• Collection: Intelligence Warning of the 1957 Launch of Sputnik
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0000124268
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: September 22, 2017
• Document Release Date: October 4, 2017
• Case Number: SC-2017-00012
• Publication Date: September 30, 1957

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TELETYPED INFORMATION REPORT
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CLASSIFICATION
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SOVI_ET EARTH SATELLITE AND ROCKET DEVELOPMENTS
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FROM SOVIET DELEGATES TO THE WASHINGTON EARTH SATELLITE
C ONFERENCE.
1. ACADEMICIAN LET. GENJ ANATOLIY A. BIAGONRAVOV IS APPARENTLY IN CHARGE OF THE
SOVIET EARTH SATELLITE PROGRAM FOR THE SOVIET NATIONAL IN GE-MUSICAL
YEAR (EGY) COMMITTER. WN QUERIED CONCERNING WHETHER CR Nar THERE VAS A DIVISION
OF FESIOFiki3?/LITY trrATEEx tHrtarrin staipitTrANDAIrp:w.scpw-vJEarccw-43,1444.s.,-z-;,-7
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EXISTS IN THE UNITED STATES' PROGRAM, AND WHETHER CR NOT THE SOVIET
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WAS IN CHARGE OF THE ACTUAL LAUNCHING, ONE OF THE DELEGATES REFL.= IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
HE STATED THAT THIS DIVISION OF RESPONSIBILITY EXISTS.
2. ACCORDING TO BIAGONRAVOV, NONE OF THE Ravin DELEGATES GOING TO THE WASHINGTOt
CCrIFEMCE HAS ANY KNOWLEDGE OF THE SOVIET LAUNCHING VEHICLE. HE STATED THAT THE
LAUNC1UNG WCULD BE CARRIED OUT "BY ANOTHER GROUP", AND THAT BE DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS
TO TILE PLANS OF THIS GRCUP. BLAGONRAVOV STATED THAT THE SOVIETS WILL NOT USE TEE
108-MMACYCLE BEACON, BUT WILL USE 20 AND 40 MEGACYCIE FREQWECD,Z nom!) - ? _
SERGEY M. POLOSKOV CLAIMS ThBOIlITEsmu
CONSTRUCTION DETAILS WILL NOT BE DISCUSSED IN WASHINGTON 13ECAUSE THE SATELLITE
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IS STILL UNDERGOING TESTS. COMMETT: POLOSKOV GAVE TEEDISTINCT IMPRESSION ?
THAT HE WAS UNDER INSTRUCTIONS NOT TO DISCUSS THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SATELLITE,
BUT HE IS PROBABLY ENTIRELY FAMILIAR WITH THE DES/G?7 WHEN 4UERIED, ABOUT THE :
INTERNAL TEMPERATURE PROBLEM, POLOSKOV STATED THAT HE IS NCT PREPARED TO DISCUSS
IT, AS "IT IS STILL BEING TESTED".
3. ONE OF THE SOVIET DELEGATES STATED THAT THE SOVMS HAD SUCCEEDED IN
FIRING ROCKETS TO AN Alm= OF ONLY 100 KILOMETERS PRIOR TC THE IGY, BUT THAT
itit.f HAVE NOW SUCutpLy IN SUCCESSFUL FIRINGS WITH SCTENITFIC INSTRUMENTS TO '
ALTITUDES ABOVE 200 KLLOMETERS. INFORMANT SAID THAT THE RESULTS OF THESE FIRINGS
HAD NOT YET BEEN ASSESSED.
FIELD DISTRIBUTION: NONE.
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