Georgi Babakin

Georgi Babakin

Georgi Nikolayevich Babakin (Бабакин, Георгий Николаевич) (November 13, 1914 – August 3, 1971) was a Soviet engineer working in the space program. He was Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1965 until his death.

Babakin's early career was spent in radio engineering, starting with a job at the Moscow telephone company in 1930, working on an urban radio network.From 1943 to 1949, Babakin worked on radar targeting systems at the Institute of Automation (VSNITO), where he becames its chief engineen.

Babakin became involved in the Soviet space program in 1949, working in Boris Chertok's division of NII-88 on surface-to-air missiles and targetting systems. In 1952, he was part of a group transfered to Lavochkin's bureau OBK-301 to work on the intercontinental cruise missile burya and the V-300 anti-aircraft missile.

In 1960, Lavochkin died at an aircraft show (literally died in Babakin's arms), and the bureau was subsumed by Chelomey. It became independant again in 1965, with Babakin as its chief designer. Sergey korolev wanted Babakin to take over unmanned lunar and planetary probes, so he could focus his attention on the N-1 moon-landing project.Babakin's new "NPO Lavochkin" brought improved engineering, testing and systems management to this problem, generating a series of successes where Korolev's bureau had been failing -- the first soft landing on the Moon by Luna 9, the first probe of the Venusian atmosphere by Venera 4.

Babakin died shortly before the completion of the Mars 2 and Mars 3 spacecrafts. His bureau continued with a series of impressive successes, the first (and only) Lunar rovers, landings on Venus and robotic sample return of moon rocks. A research division of NPO Lavochkin is named after Babakin, and the firm continues to design and build spacecrafts.

Babakin crater on the Moon and Babakin crater on Mars were named in his honor.

External links

* [http://www.space.hobby.ru/babakin.html Good Biography in Russian]


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