Kosmos 954 (Russian: Космос 954) was a reconnaissance satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1977. A malfunction prevented safe separation of its onboard...

Kosmos (Russian: Ко́смос, IPA: [ˈkosməs], meaning "(outer) space" or "Kosmos") is a designation given to many satellites operated by the Soviet Union and...

a previous malfunction of Kosmos 954, five years earlier over Canada's Northwest Territories. In response to the Kosmos 954 mishap, RORSAT satellites...

to rise. G-M counters being used in the search for debris of satellite Kosmos 954 Becquerel, the SI unit of the radioactive decay rate of a quantity of...

January 24, 1978, a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite, named Kosmos 954, built with an onboard nuclear reactor fell from orbit and disintegrated...

satellite failures that polluted and dispersed radioactive materials are Kosmos 954, Kosmos 1402 and the Transit 5-BN-3. When in a controlled manner satellites...

to failures in the ejection system, most notably Kosmos 954, which scattered debris over Canada. Kosmos 1402 also re-entered the atmosphere, but burned...

sampling airplanes. Kosmos 367 (04564 / 1970-079A), 3 October 1970, failed 110 hours after launch, moved to higher orbit.: 10  Kosmos 954. The satellite failed...

struck the deck of their boat. 1978: the Soviet reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 954 reentered the atmosphere over northwest Canada and scattered radioactive...

Treaty of 1967. In 1978, the crash of the nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 in Canadian territory led to the only claim filed under the convention...

Kosmos 1818 was a nuclear powered Soviet surveillance satellite in the RORSAT program, which monitored NATO vessels using radar. Kosmos 1818 was the first...

connected with the unmanned nuclear-reactor-powered Soviet RORSAT especially Kosmos 954 radar satellite which resulted in nuclear fuel reentering the Earth's...

parody of Adolf Hitler (Adenold Hynkel of Tomainia). The Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burned up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's...

re-entries causing (or almost causing) damage are the 1978 re-entry of Kosmos 954, a Soviet satellite, which landed in Canada and spread dangerous amounts...

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material, as had occurred with Kosmos 954 and Kosmos 1402, which showered the Earth with radioactive debris. In 1992, Kosmos 1867 had a visual magnitude...

without recovery.[citation needed] In early 1978, the Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 954, powered by a 45-kilogram highly enriched uranium reactor, went into an...

their lifetime is around 1 in a trillion. On January 24, 1978, the Soviet Kosmos 954 (3,800 kilograms [8,400 lb]) reentered and crashed near Great Slave Lake...

against Libya Morning Light (1978) — Joint Canadian-US effort to recover Kosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet RORSAT. Operation Morris Dance (1987) — Australian...

high level radioactive waste.) 1978 On the 24 January a satellite named Kosmos 954 failed. It was powered by a liquid sodium–potassium thermionic converter...

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of Soviet military surveillance satellites between 1967 and 1988. See Kosmos 954 for more details. Although the priority for thermionic reactor use diminished...

of the then-recent crash of the highly radioactive Russian satellite Kosmos 954 (which took place just 4 days earlier), this episode features a running...

influx of government workers. In 1978 the Soviet nuclear-powered satellite Kosmos 954 crashed to Earth near Yellowknife. There were no known casualties, although...

retrieve materials from a satellite crash (notably on land as occurred with Kosmos-954, Mars-96 and Fobos-Grunt) and then use these to supplement the yield of...

January 24, 1978 Northwest Territories, Canada Spill of nuclear fuel Kosmos 954, a Soviet Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite with an onboard nuclear...

ambassador of West Germany persona non grata. January 24 Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's...

Jupiter Success Sent back images of Jupiter and its system  Soviet Union Kosmos 954 Earth Success Reconnaissance satellites 1978  US Pioneer Venus 1 Venus...

the ceremony. 1978 – Malfunctioning nuclear-powered Soviet satellite Kosmos 954 breaks up upon descent, scattering radioactive debris across a large area...

Activists remembered the crash of the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered Kosmos 954 satellite in Canada in 1978, and the Challenger disaster, while it did...