Soviet Space Tracking, Card No 30 (RaceIntoSpace 1971)
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Card No. 30: Soviet Space Tracking
Stations in the Soviet Union are backed up by a fleet of tracking ships in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans.
One, the Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov, is named after the spaceman who lost his life in the Soyuz landing accident.
It was built at the Baltisky shipyards in Leningrad for the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Land-based tracking stations are located in various parts of the Soviet Union. The main deep space tracking centre, which maintains contact with space probes en-route to Venus and Mars, is Yevpatoria in the Crimea.
