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This CIA-held JPRS report (JPRS-USP-89-007) is an English translation of an interview with academician Roald Sagdeyev. The interview ran in the Soviet magazine PRIRODA in January 1989. Sagdeyev talks about space research achievements, the Interbol project, and the Phobos mission to Mars, including the loss of contact with Phobos 1 in September 1988. He also covers competing designs for Mars 94, manned flight to Mars and democratizing Soviet science. He mentions UFOs only once, recalling a Gosplan lecture where every audience question was about flying saucers.
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## Document 1 of 3 Page 3 opportunity to discuss our own approach at the International Space Forum, which took place in October of 1987, in Moscow. At the forum, we stated to scientists from 35 countries our own firm conviction that space research should not become an arena of competition and rivalry. And the economic aspects are by far not the least important factor. For that very reason, it is very important to explain why so much effort is being expended and enormous amounts of resources are being spent, while, within the framework of the scientists' international cooperation, it is necessary to look for ways to do this more cheaply. 6. [Correspondent] Thus, it is possible to say that space research is already quite a 'mature' field of science that, in your words, is now blossoming. What would you list as its most fundamental achievements in our country and abroad? 7. [Sagdeyev] I consider one of the biggest yet achievements in the field of space research to be the discovery of the earth's radiation belts and magnetosphere. It is no accident that, even today, the earth's magnetosphere, with its own complex plasma dynamics, particle acceleration and instabilities, continues to interest many scientists. A great deal of work is being performed in that field, and special satellites are being launched. A number of hard-to-measure processes, such as shock waves, the recoupling of the magnetic field's force lines and turbulence, make it necessary to perform new generations of experiments. In order to understand the cause-and-effect connections between events in the complex solar magnetosphere-ionosphere system, it is necessary to probe its various critical regions simultaneously, using a broad network of satellites and ground stations which operate in conjunction with them. 8. Thus, the Interbol project currently being prepared is intended for investigation of near-earth outer space using a system of probes. This project, planned for the years 1990-1991, includes two Prognoz-type satellites, each of which will have its own subsatellite. Interbol's basic task will be the study of the physical mechanisms responsible for the transfer of the solar wind's energy to the magnetosphere, for the accumulation there of this energy and for its subsequent dissipation in the magnetosphere's auroral regions, in the ionosphere and in the earth's atmosphere during magnetospheric substorms. One of the satellites--the ''tail probe,'' with its own subsatellite--will be placed into an orbit which will pass through the tail of the earth's magnetosphere, which is an energetic reservoir of magnetospheric substorms; whereas the other (the ''auroral probe,'' with its own subsatellite) will be placed into an orbit which passes through the region above the so-called auroral oval at an altitude of 5,000-15,000 km. Typical of this region are the charged-particle acceleration processes and the presence of
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 21 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.