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52 degrees pretty well lines up with Russia's southern border. Virtually no overlap.
by femto 4y ago
52 degrees pretty well lines up with Russia's southern border. Virtually no overlap.
- Gravityloss 4y agoYes, makes sense, because of physics. When the Soviet Union wanted to launch something to space, it did it as close to the equator as possible. That way you get the most boost from the spinning earth. (If you're not using a polar orbit.) So they used a southern point of Soviet union in Tyuratam in Kazakhstan, better known as Baikonur.