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As of 2011, Cosmodrome Plesetsk occupied an area of 1,800 square kilometers. According to the official statistics, since its inception the space center had conducted testing and validation of 10 types of launch vehicles, 11 rocket complexes and 30 types of spacecraft.


List of known facilities in Plesetsk:

Site Description
10 Town of Mirny (main residential area)
16 The Soyuz residential area serving Site 2 and 4;
25 Processing infrastructure for the RT-2 missile (dismantled after 2011)
32 11P868 launch complex for Tsyklon-3 (11K68) booster with two launch pads
32T The processing area for Tsyklon-3 and Rockot boosters
35 Two-pad launch complex originally built for Zenit with a completion date in 1996; later rebuilt for Angara with a completion date in 2010. (Delayed to 2013)
41 Residential area serving Site 1 and Site 142
43 Launch pad No. 3 for the 8K78M Molniya rocket
101 IP-1 ground control station
111 Residential area
132 Cosmos pad
133 Two Cosmos pads (One converted for Rockot)
141 The processing area
142 The processing and assembly area for the Soyuz rocket and Zenit and Angara rockets (under construction); the processing area for Resurs F1,2, Bion, Foton, Oblik and Yantar (Kobalt) spacecraft
145 KAZ Nitrogen-oxygen plant
151 ZNS Fueling and neitralization station
161 Processing infrastructure for the RT-2 missile (dismantled after 2011)
171 Processing area (for the Cosmos-3M rocket and spacecraft)

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Page author: Anatoly Zak; Last update: July 30, 2011

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