US-A, also known in the west as Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellite or RORSAT (GRAU index 17F16K), was a series of 33 Soviet reconnaissance satellites...

nuclear bombs. Some artificial satellites, such as the SNAP-10A and the RORSATs were powered by nuclear reactors fueled with uranium-235. "#Standard Reaction:...

Between 1980 and 1989, the BES-5 and TOPAZ-I fission reactors of the Soviet RORSAT program suffered leakages of their liquid sodium–potassium alloy coolant...

thermoelectric generator that was used to power 31 satellites in the US-A (RORSAT) project. The heat source was a uranium 235 fast fission nuclear reactor...

(PDF). Retrieved 2024-06-15. Encyclopedia Astronautica article on the US-A RORSAT programme. "USSR - Luna Programme". "NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details"...

times more than current RTG power supplies) have been orbited by the USSR: RORSAT; and TOPAZ. Plans to develop a megawatt-scale nuclear reactor for the use...

Canadian dollars in compensation. The satellite was part of the Soviet Union's RORSAT programme, a series of reconnaissance satellites which observed ocean traffic...

reactor entered a few days later; on 7 February 1983. Kosmos 1402 was a RORSAT surveillance satellite that used radar for monitoring NATO vessels. The...

been launched using nuclear reactors: 34 reactors belong to the Soviet RORSAT series and one was the American SNAP-10A. Both fission and fusion appear...

reactor power system launched into space by the United States. The Soviet RORSAT radar satellites were powered by a BES-5 reactor, which was cooled with...

2021-11-25. Siddiqi, Asif (November 1999). "Staring at the Sea: The Soviet RORSAT and EORSAT Programmes" (PDF). Journal of the British Interplanetary Society...

(RORSAT) in the US. Typically, the reactors produced approximately 3 kWe. BES-5 - was a sodium cooled space reactor launched as part of the RORSAT program...

672: 17. Bibcode:2009ESASP.672E..17W. A. Rossi et al, "Effects of the RORSAT NaK Drops on the Long Term Evolution of the Space Debris Population", University...

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

reconnaissance satellite IGS Japan radar reconnaissance and optoelectronic reconnaissance RORSAT Russian Federation Radar Ocean Reconnaissance SATellite...

fragments, paint flakes, slag from solid rocket motors, coolant released by RORSAT nuclear powered satellites, small needles, and many other objects. These...

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

fission power system nuclear reactors have been sent into space in Soviet RORSAT satellites; also, over 40 radioisotope thermoelectric generators have been...

October 1967 Last flight 25 January 1969 Type of passengers/cargo IS-A/IS-P RORSAT First stage – 8S671 Powered by 1 RD-251 Maximum thrust 2,640 kN (590,000 lbf)...

vehicles have been launched using full-fledged nuclear reactors: the Soviet RORSAT series and the American SNAP-10A. In addition to spacecraft, the Soviet...

satellite constellations include the following, with operational dates. RORSAT a.k.a. US-A (SAR, Soviet Union, 1967-1988, 33 satellites) Almaz (Soviet...

flight of TKS spacecraft Kosmos 1818 - first RORSAT with Topaz-1 nuclear reactor Kosmos 1867 - second RORSAT with Topaz-1 nuclear reactor Kosmos 1870 -...

Joint Canadian-US effort to recover Kosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet RORSAT. Operation Morris Dance (1987) — Australian response to the first of the...

of them uncrewed. The Soviets up to 1988 orbited 33 nuclear reactors in RORSAT military radar satellites, where electric power generated was used to power...

imaging satellite to be operated by the Russian military after the Soviet RORSAT and Almaz-T series. The first Kondor-E (Kondor-E 1, COSPAR 2014-084A) launched...

Orbital Debris Event, Spaceflight 101. A. Rossi et al, "Effects of the RORSAT NaK Drops on the Long Term Evolution of the Space Debris Population", University...

Космос 1867) was a nuclear powered radar ocean reconnaissance satellite (RORSAT) that was launched by the Soviet Union on July 10, 1987. It was put into...

August 1969 Last flight 24 June 2006 Type of passengers/cargo IS-A/IS-P RORSAT EORSAT First stage – 11S681 Powered by 1 RD-251 Maximum thrust 2,640 kN...

on 24 July 1981; on 24 January 1978, the nuclear-powered Kosmos 954, a RORSAT, crashed into Canada; The Aerospace Corporation; the Russian Mars 96 was...

confused with the nuclear-powered radar ocean surveillance satellites (RORSAT), no longer operational.[citation needed] A full constellation of US-PU...