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Title:
STUDIES OF SEMICONDUCTOR AND
STRUCTURAL MATERIALS ON
"MIR"
Primary Source:
Sovetskaya Moldova,
August
21,
1991,
No.
163
(17417),
p.
1,
cols.
4-5
Entire Text:
Flight Control
Center,
August
(TASS)
-- Anatoliy Artsebarskiy and Ser-
gey Krikalev
have been working
on board the
"Mir"
complex for three months.
In
line with
the
space material s-
science program,
the crew began
the
latest
melt
in
the
unit
"Krater-V"
on August
17.
The purpose of this production process,
which
is calculated
to
last
120
hours,
is
to obtain one more highly pure single crys-
tal
of the semiconductor material
cadmium
sulfide
in
zero gravity.
Experiments employing
scientific
in-
struments
and equipment
installed
on the
outer surface of the orbiting complex are
continuing.
Today,
spectra of radiation of
extraterrestrial
origin
are being measured
and studies are being made of characteris-
tics of structural
materials which
have
been exposed
in conditions of open
space
for
a prolonged period of time.
The work
in near-Earth orbit
is pro-
ceeding
in
accordance with the designated
schedule.
Both cosmonauts
are feeling
wel
.
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Author:
Moskovskiy,
O.,
correspondent
Title:
CHIEF OF STAFF REASSURES PUBLIC AS
TO SUPERVISION
OF_ NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Primary Source:
Krasnaya zvezda,
August
29,
1991,
No.
196
(20583),
p.
1,
cols.
6-7
Entire Text:
Moscow,
August
-- General
of the Army Vladimir
Lobov,
chief of the
General
Staff of the USSR Armed
Forces,
has
announced:
"The strategic nuclear forces
of the Soviet Union
(rocket troops,
the
nuclear fleet and strategic
aviation)
and
tactical
nuclear weapons of the
Land
Forces
were and
are under rigid and constant
su-
pervision both during the period of the
well-known events
in the USSR and after
them."
He gave
an
interview to
a TASS cor-
respondent
in connection with various
spec-
ulation
in the West regarding violation
by
the junta's participants of supervision of
strategic nuclear weapons of the USSR
in
the course of the coup d'etat that
failed.
V.
Lobov emphasized that prevention of
unsanctioned use of nuclear weapons
"is
en-
ensured by suitable technical
and organiza-
tional
measures
in the system for control
of strategic nuclear forces and by reliable
safeguarding and defense of nuclear war-
heads and means of delivering them."
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Author:
Shitov,
Audrey,
correspondent
Title:
WG-29 AND IL-76 AIRPLANES ARRIVE
IJJJJj.
FOR AIR SHOWS
Primary Source:
Krasnaya zvezda,
August
29,
1991,
No.
196
(20583),
p.
3,
cols.
7-8
Extract:
New York,
August
28 — Two Soviet
MIG-29 fighter aircraft and
an
IL-76 trans-
port airplane have arrived
in the United
States
to conduct demonstration
flights.
Their American tour was
to have begun
on
August
19,
but
U.S.
authorities canceled
it
as
a sign of protest against the attempted
coup d'etat that was perpetrated
in
the
USSR.
Now that the legitimate government
has been restored
in the Soviet Union,
the
American
side
has
lifted this
ban.
In accordance with the original
pro-
gram,
the Soviet airplanes were
to take
part
in
seven air shows,
in the cities
of
Westfield
(Massachusetts),
Cleveland
(Ohio),
Mankato
(Minnesota),
Harrisburg
(Pennsylvania),
Topeka
(Kansas),
Fort Worth
(Texas)
and Salinas
(California).
Unfor-
tunately,
they were already too late
for
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show,
but they are being
eagerly awaited
in
the other places.
It
is proposed
to arrange three or
four demonstration
flights during each
show.
Those who wish will
be able
to
'take
a ride
in
a MIG
as passengers
in
the
course of these
flights.
(SNAP 910912)
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Author:
Bystrov,
M.
Title:
PROGRESS IN CREATING SPACE SYSTEM
FOR TRANSMITTING MEDICAL INFORMATION
Primary Source:
Sovetskaya Rossiya,
May
22,
1991,
No.
100
(10551),
p.
4,
col.
Extract:
The
idea of creating
an
interna-
tional
emergency satellite system has been
maturing
for
a
long time.
This system
would supply rescuers with medical
informa-
tion
quickly.
A program called
"Outer Space for
Health"
has come
into being.
The scientif-
ic production association
"All-Union Medi-
cal
Information"
(Soyuzmedinform)
of the
USSR Ministry of Health
is directing work
in
line with
this program and coordinating
operations of
all
concerned organizations.
In organizing such
a service,
it
is
important that
it be linked to internation-
al
systems.
This refers
in particular to
so-called
"satellites of
life" which
form
a
network of the
"Helsnet"
type.
Work on
creating
such
a network
has
advanced
fur-
ther abroad than
in our country.
It
is
proposed
to
launch the first
satellite of
this
series with
an
"Ariane"
rocket
in May
of this year.
In the space system
in question,
it
is
most convenient
to use satellites placed
into
low orbits.
From 24 to
30 spacecraft
are required.
They would
be capable of
supporting communications
among medical
centers within the limits
of practically
the entire planet.
An association called
SMOLSAT
has been created
for the purpose of
carrying out these plans
in the USSR.
Three
large
firms —
"Soyuzmedinform,"
"Ap-
plied Mechanics"
and
"Precision
Instrument"
--
have become members of this association.
It
is proposed that the system will
serve not only needs
inside the Union but
also foreign organizations
on
a commercial
basis.
The World Health Organization,
the
International
Red Cross,
the U.N.
Committee
on Natural
and
Industrial
Disasters
and
other organizations
have already shown
in-
terest
in the
system.
"One feature of this humanitarian pro-
ject
is
that
it
is
financed
by bank credit
and
not from the state budget,"
related
A.
Kiselev,
general
director of the
"Soyuzmed-
inform"
firm.
"I
am sure
that the system
will
become self-supporting through
collec-
tion
of fees from potential
users.
The
participation of
such
large Soviet space
firms
as
'Applied Mechanics'
and
'Precision
Instrument'
in this work will
serve
as
a
guarantee
that,
from the technical
standp-
oint,
the system will
meet the highest
world
standard.
The first satellites will
begin
to operate
by
1993.
The system
is
supposed to be
fully operational
by
1994."
(SNAP 910912)
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Author:
Davidyants,
Aleksandr
(Moscow)
Title:
USES OF ELECTRONIC-WAVE RESEARCH IN
POWER ENGINEERING ,
DECONTAMINATION
Primary Source:
Gudok,
August
23,
1991,
No.
161
(19996),
p.
4,
cols.
5-8
Abstract:
The article
is
an
interview with
academician
Rimiliy Fedorovich Avramenko,
head of research
at the central
scientific
production association
"Vympel"
of the USSR
Ministry of the Radio
Industry.
Avramenko
comments on
studies of the properties
of
electronic waves
and on prospective fields
for employing results of this
research.*
Avramenko
relates
that
a
large group
of scientists of the
"Vympel"
association
and colleagues
from other organizations
have been engaged
in
research
of electronic
waves
for more than
20 years.
It
is
noted
that
information about
this work was clas-
sified
up
until
recently.
Among
the pro-
ject's
results
are hypotheses
regarding the
origin of ordinary
lightning,
ball
light-
ning and tornadoes.
It
has been demon-
strated that these and other natural
phe-
nomena
are connected with the accumulation
of
a
huge mass of highly concentrated elec-
tronic waves over the earth's
surface.
This mass discharges periodically,
giving
rise to
lightning
and thunder.
The
scien-
tists
have concluded that
electronic waves
not only constitute
a
large portion
of the
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mass of the universe but represent
a com-
pletely new and essentially
inexhaustible
source of energy.
Avramenko and
his asso-
ciates also discovered that electronic
waves
can form
a Bose condensate
(paired
electronic waves).
This property enabled
the scientists
to observe high-temperature
superconductivity
in dielectrics
for the
first
time.
Avramenko showed the author of the
article an
instrument which
is
said
to
demonstrate processes
that
the scientists
are studying.
Avramenko flipped
a switch
of this
instrument,
which
is housed
in
a
small
plastic box,
and barely audible
ex-
plosions were
soon
heard.
A thin,
shining
jet of plasma burst from
a
small
hole
in
the
instrument.
The scientist then placed
an ordinary
steel
safety-razor blade over
this
hole.
Another jet emerged
from the
instrument and pierced the blade.
Avramen-
ko explains
that
his group
has
succeeded
in
recreating plasma-like
formations
in
laboratory conditions and demonstrating
that these objects possess quite unusual
physical
properties,
including high specif-
ic energy content,
and nonlocalization —
the ability to
interact remotely with their
environment.
Such
interaction makes
it
possible
to obtain additional
energy.
Avramenko claims that development of
electric power stations of
a new type which
is ecologically clean
has become possible
in practice,
thanks
to advances
in elec-
tronic power engineering.
The
small
in-
strument which
he demonstrated
is charac-
terized
as
a power station
in miniature.
.
Avramenko
foresees
the possibility of using
electronic energy also
in
transport,
in-
cluding space flight.
He thinks
that
un-
identified flying objects may
be extrater-
restrial
spacecraft powered
by electronic-
wave energy which these objects obtain di-
rectly from their environment.
The
use of
electronic waves for combating radiocontam-
ination
is mentioned
as
still
another
im-
portant direction of research.
Experiments
reportedly
have demonstrated that treatment
of radioactive
substances with
such waves
can accelerate these substances'
process of
decay by
a million
times.
This opens
up
unique possibilities for eliminating con-
sequences of the Chernobyl
disaster,
for
example.
Avramenko thinks
that
the Soviet Union
has
the
scientific potential
to put his
group's
ideas
into practice.
He reports
that
the group
is
ready
to develop decon-
tamination equipment utilizing electronic
waves
and plans
to conduct
field trials of
such equipment
in three years.
A proposal
submitted recently
to the RSFSR Supreme
Soviet calls
for more than
4 million .rubles
to be allocated
for this purpose.
*See also the Daily SNAP,
August
22,
1991,
p.
3,
col
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Author:
Prisyazhnyy,
A.
(Helsinki)
Title:
BALTIC^ SEABED
TO BE STUDIED FROM
FORMERL Y SECRET MUMMMIEE.
Primary Source:
ITodnyy
transport,
August
17,
1991,
No.
(9809),
p.
2,
col.
Entire Text:
On board the vessel
"Akademik
Aleksey
Krylov,"
the
first Soviet-Finnish
scientific expedition
has begun joint
studies of the
seabed,
flora and
fauna of
the Baltic Sea.
The scientists
intend
to
conduct geological
studies
in the Gulf of
Finland
and
to study the mechanism of the
spread of heavy metals,
organic
substances
and other results of human activity
in
it,
and their effect on the marine environment.
The scientists will
take samples
of
seabed
soil
from
a small
submarine,
which
is
submerged from the vessel.
It
is capa-
ble of operating with
a crew at
a depth
of
up
to
500 meters,
and
its
hydraulic
'arms'
can collect samples
into
special
2-meter
capsules.
The Finnish press,
which
is giving
high praise
to
the organization of such
an
expedition,
notes
that Finnish scientists
will
for the first time be able
to descend
to the seabed
in
a secret Soviet minisub-
marine.
Not
long
ago,
the
Finnish
research
vessel
"Armanda"
visited the eastern waters
of the Gulf of
Finland,
also
for the
first
time
in
50 years.
This
shows
that
radical
changes
have taken place
in the area of the
exchange of scientific
information with
the
Soviet Union.
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