Oct 16 1965
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R. launched COSMOS XCII unmanned satellite, equipped to continue studies of the infrared and ultraviolet radiation of the earth's atmosphere, Orbital parameters: apogee, 329 km. (204 mi,) ; perigee, 199 km. (123 mi.) ; period, 89.8 min,; inclination, 65.02°. All systems were functioning normally, Soviet Prof. Aleksandr Lebedinskiy told Tass that two spectrophotometers would point vertically part of the time and at the horizon part of the time. One instrument would cover the spectrum from seven to 20 microns and the other from 14 to 38 microns; it would take 20 sec. to obtain one spectrogram. (Tass, 10/16/65)
A secret weapon, about which former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev had boasted, blew up in 1960 killing the commander-in-chief of the Soviet missile forces, Marshal Mitrofan I. Nedelin, and 300 others, the Manchester Guardian reported. The weapon was a missile with a nuclear propellant. The Guardian quoted secret reports of Oleg V. Penkovsky, a Russian executed in 1963 for spying for the West, which would be published in November 1965. (NYT, 10/17/65, 25; Wash, Post, 10/17/65, 1)
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