The State Central Navy Testing Range (russian: «Государственный центральный морской полигон», ''Gosudarstvennyj central'nyj morskoj poligon'') at
Nyonoksa is the main
rocket
A rocket (from it, rocchetto, , bobbin/spool) is a vehicle that uses jet propulsion to accelerate without using the surrounding air. A rocket engine produces thrust by reaction to exhaust expelled at high speed. Rocket engines work entire ...
launching site of the
Soviet Navy and later the
Russian Navy. The site is located east from in the settlement of
Sopka north of the Nyonoksa.
History
It was established in 1954.
Since 1965 numerous rockets of the types
R-27,
R-29,
R-39 Rif and
R-39M were launched from Nyonoksa.
Accidents
On 15 December 2015, an accident during a missile launch test resulted in a block of flats in the village being hit by part of a rocket.
On 8 August 2019 an explosion caused the
Nyonoksa radiation accident with several scientists being killed.
The incident might be linked to the development of the nuclear-powered cruise missile
9M730 Burevestnik
The 9M730 Burevestnik (russian: Буревестник; "Petrel", NATO reporting name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall) is a Russian experimental nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile under development for the Russian Armed Forces. The missile has an ...
, also known by its
NATO reporting name as the ''SSC-X-9 Skyfall''.
References
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Installations of the Russian Navy
Weapons test sites
Installations of the Soviet Navy
Buildings and structures in Arkhangelsk Oblast
1954 establishments in the Soviet Union