[FPSPACE] TV from Sputnik-2, again

[agzak at optonline.net]

Sven:

Very interesting discussion. It is strictly my impression, but it seems that if you look at existing ground photos of Laika, you might make a conclusion that the dog pictured on this page: 

http://www.telesputnik.ru/images/n07/sobaka.gif

is NOT Laika,

however images here look like Laika:

http://www.russianspaceweb.com/sputnik2_mission.html


Anatoly Zak
http://www.russianspaceweb.com



----- Original Message -----
From: Sven Grahn <svengrahn at telia.com>
Date: Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:11 am
Subject: [FPSPACE] TV from Sputnik-2, again
To: FPSPACE FPSPACE <fpspace at friends-partners.org>

> Dear Friends,
> 
> In early January I was contacted by an art student who asked the 
> straight question. Was there a TV system on Sputnik-2 and where can 
> we find the pictures? I went back to what I have written myself 
> about this and other sources. I found myself throroughly confused, 
> and in the absence of an operational FPSPACE, I contacted Igor 
> Lissov. I reproduce our exchange below. Perhaps members of FPSPACE 
> want to comment? I know we have had this subject up for discussion 
> before, but maybe new information is now available?
> 
> This is what I wrote to Igor:
> 
> "... In many sources, even Asif's big volume, you find the 
> information that Sputnik-2 had av 200-line TV-system. However, in 
> scientific papers (like: Malashenkov,Dimitri C,  "Some Unknown 
> Pages of the Living Organism's First Orbital Flight", Paper IAC-02-
> IAA.2.2.05, 53rd International Astronautical Concress, 10-19 
> October 2002,  Houston, Texas. ) this information is missing. 
> Frankly, I think many mix up Sputnik-2 with Korabl-Sputnik-2 where 
> there was a TV-system that sent pictures of Strelka and Belka ..."
> 
> To which Igor replied:
> 
> "... It's an interesting question indeed. There are Russian sources 
> that claim a low-res 100 or 200-line 10 sec-1 TV system built by 
> OKB MEI (Moscow) in cooperation with VNII televideniya (Leningrad) 
> was indeed put onboard PS-2. Some call it Seliger -- Tral-T
> (e.g. http://www.novosti-
> kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/240/38.shtml ).
> 
> Authors associated with VNII televideniya insist that they started 
> development of Enisey and Seliger onboard TV systems only in 1958 
> for Luna probes and Vostok spaceship respectively. You may see, as 
> examples, the two 1996 articles by V.Efimov
> 
> ( http://www.telesputnik.ru/archive/5/article/50.html ,
> http://www.telesputnik.ru/archive/7/article/54.html )
> 
> as well as a memoir by Maria Mamyrina 
> 
> (http://magazines.russ.ru/neva/2007/9/mm22.html ).
> 
> The latter essentially says that a 100-line Seliger system was in 
> use for both Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Belka & Strelka) and Vostok 1, and a 
> modified 400-line version was employed from Vostok 2 on.
> 
> The former starts directly with modernization in mid-1961 without 
> explaining when and how the initial version was used. Also, Yuri 
> Mozzhorin refers to the initial system as Seliger -- Tral-D
> 
> ( http://rgantd.ru/book_2.php?link=mozjorin ).
> 
> Yet I cannot decide if the dog pictured at
> 
> http://www.telesputnik.ru/images/n07/sobaka.gif
> 
> is Laika or not.
> 
> It is also known that OKB MEI produced their own version of lunar 
> photocamera / TV tranmission system which was not used. One may ask 
> if an OKB MEI TV-system was indeed in use on PS-2; it would explain 
> why the VNII televideniya people never mention it ..."
> 
> Best Wishes
> 
> Sven
> 
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