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On December 24, 2009 at 08:30 (UTC/GMT +2) the first combat training launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) RS-20V “Voyevoda” was conducted from the launching silo of Yasnyi spaceport, Russian Federation. The rocket was launched to Kura firing ground at Kamchatka peninsula. The flight of ICBM ran successfully; training combat units precisely engaged hypothetical targets at Kamchatka firing ground, as informed by the Press Office of Strategic Missile Forces of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation.
The launch of ICBM RS-20V was conducted with a goal to confirm the operational resource of the missile system in order to extend its on-station period. Successful launch has demonstrated the high reliability of RS-20V missile, designed by SDO Yuzhnoye and produced by Production Association Yuzhmash in Dnipropetrovs’k.
Due to the efforts of Ukrainian and Russian enterprises and specialists the conversion launch-vehicle Dnepr has been designed on the basis of ICBM RS-20, currently being removed from combat duty in Russian Federation. Dnepr LV is utilized by International Space Company KOSMOTRAS for commercial launching of space crafts. In course of only 10 years, 13 launches of Dnepr LV have been conducted in total.
In 2009, 6 launches from the foreign spaceports Baikonur, Plesetsk and floating platform Odyssey in the Pacific Ocean have been conducted by means of launch vehicles produced in Ukraine, e.g.: Dnepr, Cyclone-3, Zenit-3SLB, Zenit-3SL.
Today’s successful launch of ICBM RS-20V “Voyevoda” and commercial launches of Ukrainian LVs during this year confirmed the rocket-space status of our country and high professionalism of space industry specialists.
Press-Service, NSAU
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