Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin
tracking ship
Current position
No live position received yet. Identity and particulars below.
Identity & particulars
- Name
- Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin
- IMO number
- 7116286
- MMSI
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- Call sign
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- Flag
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- Vessel type
- tracking ship
- Gross tonnage
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- Deadweight (DWT)
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- Length overall
- 232 m
- Beam
- 32 m
- Year built
- 1971
- Builder
- Baltic Shipyard
- Registered owner
- Russian Academy of Sciences
- Operator
- Russian Academy of Sciences
Particulars are enriched from public sources as they become available. Position & identity are derived live from AIS.
About Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin
Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin (Russian: «Космона́вт Ю́рий Гага́рин») was a Soviet space control-monitoring ship that was devoted to detecting and receiving satellite communications. Named after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the ship was completed in December 1971 to support the Soviet space program. The ship also conducted upper atmosphere and outer space research. It had very distinguishable looks due to two extremely large and two smaller parabolic "dish" antennas placed on top of the hull. In 1986, Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin was the world's largest communications ship and was the flagship of a fleet of communications ships. These ships greatly extended the tracking range when the orbits of cosmonauts and unmanned missions were not over the USSR. In 1975, the ship was a part of the Soviet-American Apollo–Soyuz joint test program. The communications ships belonged to the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin now?
- Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin has not transmitted a live position recently. Its identity and particulars are kept on this page, and its position will appear here the moment it is detected on AIS again.
- What kind of ship is Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin?
- Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin is a tracking ship, built in 1971 by Baltic Shipyard. The vessel is 232 m long with a beam of 32 m.
- Who owns Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin?
- Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin is registered to Russian Academy of Sciences. Ownership data is compiled from public registries and shown free on Seadar.
- Has Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin been detained or sanctioned?
- No detentions or sanctions for Kosmonavt Yuriy Gagarin appear in the public sources Seadar tracks (USCG PSIX inspections and the OFAC SDN list).