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oO 47 3 fF Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200120001-5 6 mie Ape S pe. — CPYRGHT R space station was launched in February 1986, providing the core-vehicle habitat and flight ! center for a modular space complex. rations of remote sensing, oceanography, ments is an important cosmonaut function that ology, and geodesy have been the focus has both civilian and military applications. eated cosmonaut investigations. Even Soviet efforts in this field, however, have ts such as astronomical observations, concentrated on the production of substances erformed by cosmonauts, have military with militarily significant applications re- . Such investigations, for example, can garding the development of semiconductor de- e data useful for maintaining the orien- vices, infrared and optical detectors, and of certain equipment to an accuracy of electro-optical systems. arc-seconds, a capability needed to aim Another crucial cosmonaut activity is Harth bd-energy weapons. observation, which has implications for re- ability to rendezvous and manually dock connaissance and targeting applications. The ncooperative spacecraft, which Soviet Soviets report that their cosmonauts have used mauts demonstrated in 1985 and 1986, visual observations, cameras, radars, spectrom- Hs military applications. Cosmonauts use eters, and multispectral electro-optical sensors rangefinder, a night vision device, and in their observations from SALYUT space sta- ical sight while performing this oper- tions. These experiments suggest the Soviets The Soviets state that this procedure are evaluating their ability to locate, identify, low the rescue of cosmonauts stranded and track targets from outer space as the first it, but it could also be useful for repair- step toward designing a space weapons plat- endly satellites and for inspecting and form for use against targets in space and on ng enemy satellites. Earth. Such a platform may eventually be ducting materials-processing experi- used for ASAT and ballistic missile defense wae TY 7 7, o wae weryae 7s wd ta tLJ7il vu TUT OGILVY I ZCVUYV I ZCUVY = 57 Chapter III Strategic Defense and Space Operations
Approved Fr Reloase-200 ees -RDP96;0078 5094200120004 i OF farkag 7 4 dont Tue WasuiNcron Post CPYRGHT 3-Man Soyuz Docks With Space Station MOSCOW—The Soyuz TM5 ‘spacecraft carrying a three-man team of Soviet.and Bul- .. garian cosmonauts docked yesterday with the _ orbiting Mir space_station,- bringing the Mir . .. crew their first human. company in half.a year. - The final docking ‘sequences. were shown’... . live by Soviet television, . .which. returned to regular. programming minutes before the pro-. _. i‘ -ceduré:was completed. The formal announce-' -ment of the docking was carried by-the official -. .., Tass news agency.» : \. After airlocks are secured, Soviet cosmo-: | nauts Anatoly Solovyov and Victor Savinykh along with Bulgarian engineer Alexander Alexandrov will join ‘Soviets Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov onboard the Mir for a week of scientific experimentation and geo- logical observation. The 50-ton, 105-foot-long Mir complex is _ the basic building block for_a permanently -manned Soviet space station. It is a third-gen- eration Soviet spacé station and now has crew |. quarters for up to eight cosmonauts. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00789R001200120001-5