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Lake Baikal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (700 words) |
 | Lake Baikal (Russian: О́зеро Байка́л (Ozero Baykal)), a lake in Southern Siberia, Russia, between Irkutsk Oblast on the northwest and Buryatia on the southeast, near Irkutsk. |
| At 636 km/395 miles long and 80 km/50 miles wide, Baikal has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in Asia (31,494 km²/12,165 miles²) and is the deepest lake in the world (1637m/5369 ft—previously measured to 1620m/5314 ft). |
| The overall impacts of watershed pollution on Baikal and similar watersheds is studied annually by the Tahoe Baikal Institute, an exchange program between the U.S. and Russian and Mongolian scientists and university graduate students started in 1989. |
| Angara launch vehicle (363 words) |
| The Baikal stage would be equipped with a folding wing, which is stored along the fuselage of the vehicle during the booster stage of the flight. |
| The Baikal booster stage would be also equipped with an air-breathing jet engine fitted in the nose section of the rocket, which would provide a powered horizontal landing of the vehicle on the runway. |
| Baikal's jet engine would be fueled by kerosene from the same tanks, which feed the vehicle's main rocket engine during the takeoff. |
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