ROCKET TEST IN PACIFIC
Reduction In Target Area MOSCOW, June 29 The target area in the central Pacific for next month’s Soviet rocket tests is only half the size of the area the Russians used in their tests in January, Tass reported today The agency quoted Professor Ari Sternfeld. a Soviet astronautics expert, as saying the reduced target area ”is a pointer to the increased aiming accuracy of Soviet ballistic missiles.” This showed, he sSid, the conviction of those conducting the experiment that the carrier rockets would not deviate from the prescribed trajectory and would not come close to the ships which might approach its boundaries. Professor Sternfeld reported that the new target area was south-west of the previous one.
It was more removed from the centre of the Marshall Islands and from the shipping routes passing through ■ that area of the Pacific It lay within 8125 miles of the western frontier of the Soviet Union.
The new tests would demonstrate “file readiness of our astronauts for further leaps into space.” he said
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29245, 1 July 1960, Page 11
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