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Tomsk. Graduate student of Tomsk State University (TSU) Olga
Zolotukhina defended scientific work on research of atmospheric conditions
limiting starts of space rockets at spaceports Baikonur and Vostochny; data,
obtained by the climatologist, will be used by Roskosmos at choice of favorable
periods for start, press services of university reports.
Earlier it was reported that the graduate student of
the department of climatology and meteorology of the geological and
geographical faculty of TSU Zolotukhina is the only scientist-meteorologist in
Russia researching the atmospheric conditions limiting start of launch vehicle
at the Russian spaceports. Transfer of starts of a launch vehicle because of
weather conditions involves big financial losses for Roskosmos.
It is noted in the message that Zolotukhina used the
data collected in operating time by the weather forecaster of the Center for
Operation of Ground-Based Space Infrastructure Facilities "Space center
Youzhny" (Baikonur) in the thesis.
"Degree of reliability of the calculations
provided in the work is confirmed by the large volume and quality of the
analyzed data … Identification of tendencies in change of speed of wind in
layers of the top troposphere and the lower stratosphere, are of interest to
the solution of problems of ensuring stability and controllability of the
movement of a launch vehicle", – the head of department of TsNIIMash, the
academician of RACTs Valery Dineev is quoted in the message.
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With reference to the chief of geophysical department
of Federal State Unitary Enterprise TsENCI Nikolay Shirshov it is added that
the practical importance of the results received by Zolotukhina "consists
in a possibility of their use for an assessment of risks of cancellation or
transfer of start of launch vehicle at the spaceports Baikonur and Vostochny
due to excess of admissible values of speed and wind shear".
"The received results will allow to improve
quality of forecasting of dangerous convective phenomena and, respectively, to
increase safety of operation of the missile and space equipment at the
Vostochny spaceport", – the press service quotes a fragment from
Shirshov's conclusion.