Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 41
| Launch site | Baikonur Cosmodrome | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Operator | RVSN | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total launches | 134 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Launch pad(s) | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Site 41/3 launch history | |
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| Status | Demolished |
| Launches | 31 |
| First launch | October 24, 1960 |
| Last launch | December 12, 1967 |
| Associated rockets |
R-16 |
| Site 41/4 launch history | |
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| Status | Demolished |
| Launches | 81 |
| First launch | February 2, 1961 |
| Last launch | December 27, 1967 |
| Associated rockets |
R-16 |
| Site 41/15 launch history | |
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| Status | Demolished |
| Launches | 22 |
| First launch | May 25, 1963 R-16U |
| Last launch | August 27, 1968 Kosmos 3 / Kosmos 236 |
| Associated rockets |
R-16 Kosmos 3 |
Site 41 was a complex of three launch pads at the Baikonur Cosmodrome originally built for flight testing of Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) using storable propellant. The need to develop such missiles was determined by low-tactical-technical and operational characteristics of the first Soviet ICBM R-7 created by the OKB-1 under the guidance of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev. May 13, 1959 by a special decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the CM of the design Bureau «Yuzhnoye» (Chief designer-Mikhail K. Yangel) assigned to develop an Intercontinental ballistic missile on storable components of propellant, which has received designation R-16 and index - 8К64 . Together with 41 platform built platform № 42 - technical and № 43 - for residing of serving military personnel and representatives of the industry.
In the second half of 1959, construction work began on the construction of the forties sites [1]. Construction of pad for IBR R-16, consisting of the two launches, was entrusted E. I. Nikolaev. Thousands of employees of military engineers and civil subcontracting organizations, UPR Durova D. day and night worked with wholeheartedly. On the home page and technical exchanges were first ready-made premises and facilities. They began to mount the equipment. In April 1960 began construction of roads. In the month of may there were opportunities to resettle some of the soldiers in the capital, stone barracks, were ready hostel for officers-builders and customers. The supervision of construction and landfill everything was done to make life easier for a large mass of people. In August the construction work on the sites 41, 42, 43 were completed. And by 17 October 1960 and equipment erection works on objects of sites № 41, 42 and 43 were finished.
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