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Soviet ship Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin

Spacecraft tracking ship of the Soviet Union

Field	Value
section1	{{Infobox ship/image
image	Space control-monitoring ship "Kosmonaut Yuri Gagarin" in 1987.png
image_caption	Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin in 1987
section2	{{Infobox ship/class overview
name	Sofiya (Modified) (Soviet Project 1909)
builders	Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad
operators	Academy of Sciences
built_range	1971
in_service_range	1971–1991
total_ships_completed	1
total_ships_retired	1
section3	{{Infobox ship/career
country	Soviet Union
flag
name	1971–1996: Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin*
operator	*1971–1992: Academy of Sciences of the USSR
registry	*1971–1992: Odesa, Soviet Union
builder	Baltic Shipyard, Leningrad
yard_number	601
acquired	September 1971
identification	*Call sign: UKFI
fate	Scrapped in Alang after 1996
section4	{{Infobox ship/characteristics
header_caption	of Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin
type	SESS / Vigilship (Veladora)
tonnage
displacement	53,500 tons standard
length	760 ft
beam	102 ft
draft	33 ft
propulsion	2 steam turbines (Kirov) with electric drive; 19,000 shp, 1 shaft
speed	17.7 kn
range	24000 nmi at 17.7 kn
complement	approx. 160 + 180 scientist-technicians
sensors	*1 Don-Kay and 1 Okean (Navigation);
aircraft	none
aircraft_facilities	none

1996: Agar
1992–1996: Odesa, Ukraine
1996: Kingstown, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Tracking and communications equipment includes Quad Ring, Ship Bowl, and Ship Globe. Two pairs of Vee Tube/Cone HF antennas.

Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin () was a Soviet space control-monitoring ship that was devoted to detecting and receiving satellite communications. Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program. The ship also conducted upper atmosphere and outer space research.

It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller parabolic "dish" antennas placed on top of the hull.

In 1986, Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin was the world's largest communications ship and was the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR.

In 1975, the ship was a part of the Soviet-American Apollo–Soyuz joint test program.

The communications ships belonged to the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The maritime part fell under the responsibility of the Baltic- and Black sea shipping. The ships had home ports in Ukraine (Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin and the other surveillance ship ), so after the fall of the Soviet Union they were transferred to Ukraine – ending their role in spaceflight.

The ship was sold for scrap shortly after the break-up of the Soviet Union along with Akademik Sergei Korolev.

References

Norman Polmar, Siegfried Breyer, ''Guide to the Soviet Navy'', Third Edition (1984), United States Naval Institute, Annapolis Maryland, {{ISBN. 0-87021-239-7
''Tracking sites and ships'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20070210053105/http://www.suzymchale.com/kosmonavtka/tracking.html Komsmonavtka Website], Retrieved 6/13/2008
''SP-4209 The Partnership: A History of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project'', (U.S.) NASA, [https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4209/ch10-12.htm Online Article]

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