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In honor of the Day of Aviation and Cosmonautics measurement system on the ship Pacific Fleet «Marshal Krylov» the grand building of personnel and raising the flag of St. Andrew. The ship is unique. It\’s the only one in its class ship of the Russian fleet, has the task of ensuring flight tests new rocket and space technology.
Along with sea space measuring complex «Marshal Krylov» combat missions to satellite control in Kamchatka and performs a separate measurement system Troops of Aerospace Defense, located in the town of Volcano.
The objectives of the crew on duty measuring system includes liaising with automatic stations and astronauts orbiting and telemetry measurement of space objects, participation in combat and experimental space launches.
Since 2011 the trial operation of the complex has received new information and computer system by the positioning satellite link-up, time synchronization between the satellite and ground-based vehicles.
At the same time, in the part in good state of conservation equipment, which in 1961 held conversations with the first astronauts. The museum, located on the campus store witnesses era of human space exploration — autographs of astronauts, audio talks crew spacecraft from Earth and even space preserves.
April 121961 located in Volcano ground space station last of all to take the signal from Gagarin before entering the spacecraft «Vostok» in the zone «is radio visibility.» Being in the sky over Kamchatka, the first cosmonaut gave his famous «Hello blond», addressed to Alexei Leonov, specially loaned to the station to communicate with Gagarin.
