How commercial ballistic missile launches strengthen the combat readiness of North Sea submariners At the beginning of July 1998, a ballistic missile was launched from the Novomoskovsk strategic missile submarine (SSBN), commanded by Captain of the 2nd rank Alexander Moiseev, which launched the German research microsatellite Tubsat - N into low-Earth orbit. Its purpose is purely peaceful: providing mobile ground communications, studying magnetic anomalies on Earth, and much more. The main participants of the project were the State Rocket Center (SRC) "Makeev Design Bureau", whose staff is allowed by a special decree of the Russian Government to organize and conduct commercial satellite launches in order to maintain the scientific and production base of the Russian Space Agency, the Ministry of Economy and the Navy. The German side of the project was represented by the Berlin Technical University, which produced a unique microsatellite. This was the second launch of a commercial satellite for Russian sailors. In 1993, Severomorsk successfully launched a German module with research equipment for studying the Earth's biosphere. Forty-four years ago, on September 16, 1955, a sea-launched ballistic missile was launched in the Soviet Union for the first time in the world. This event marked the beginning of a new stage in the development of the submarine ship and rocket industry, and the Navy as a whole. Thanks to the experience of creating and operating the R-11FM ballistic missile system and the V-611 and AV-611 submarines, the subsequent effective deployment of the naval strategic nuclear forces (MSNF), the creation and commissioning of many projects of strategic submarine cruisers, which formed the basis of the combat power of the Soviet Navy, and subsequently and the Russian Navy. In 1995, an event occurred whose significance significantly exceeded his modest estimates expressed in the comments and media reports. The Volna launch vehicle was launched from the stra ... Read more