Joel R. Primack, Nancy Ellen Abrams, Steven Aftergood, David Hafemeister, Daniel Hirsch, R. F. Mozley, O. F. Prilutsky, Stanislav N. Rodionov, R. Z. Sagdeev,
... power more than 30 radar ocean reconnaissance satellites (RORSATs). Two RORSATs have accidentally re‐entered and released their radioactivity ...
Tópico(s): Nuclear Issues and Defense
1989 - Taylor & Francis | Science and Global Security
Carsten Wiedemann, Michael Oswald, Sebastian Stabroth, H. Klinkrad, Peter Vörsmann,
... sodium–potassium alloy and have been released during RORSAT reactor core ejections mostly on orbits close to ...
Tópico(s): Astro and Planetary Science
2005 - Elsevier BV | Advances in Space Research
Carsten Wiedemann, Michael Oswald, Sebastian Stabroth, H. Klinkrad, Peter Vörsmann,
Abstract Sixteen nuclear powered RORSATs launched between 1980 and 1988 activated a reactor core ejection system in sufficiently high orbits, mostly between 900 and 950 ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
2005 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica
... a total of 31 Radar Ocean Reconnaissance Satellites (RORSATs) from 1970 to 1988 in 260 km orbit. ...
Tópico(s): Graphite, nuclear technology, radiation studies
2009 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica
Carsten Wiedemann, S. Flegel, Johannes Gelhaus, H. Krag, H. Klinkrad, Peter Vörsmann,
... droplets. Sixteen nuclear powered satellites of the type RORSAT launched between 1980 and 1988 activated a reactor ...
Tópico(s): Space exploration and regulation
2010 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica
A. Rossi, Luciano Anselmo, Alessandro Cordelli, P. Farinella, Carmen Pardini,
... leaked outside the nuclear reactors of the Soviet RORSAT-class satellites. Our preliminary results indicate that these ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
1998 - Elsevier BV | Planetary and Space Science
Tópico(s): Target Tracking and Data Fusion in Sensor Networks
1999 - British Interplanetary Society | Journal of the British Interplanetary Society
T. J. Settecerri, E. G. Stansbery, Mark Matney,
... and the leakage of NaK droplets from the RORSAT class satellites. The time history of detection rate, ...
Tópico(s): Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
1999 - Elsevier BV | Advances in Space Research
D. Mehrholz, L. Leushacke, R. Jehn,
... as well as two subpopulations generated from leaking RORSAT reactor cores and from a Pegasus upper stage ...
Tópico(s): Space Satellite Systems and Control
1999 - Elsevier BV | Advances in Space Research
... operating nuclear reactor sources, such as the Soviet RORSAT and US SP‐100, on satellites with a ...
Tópico(s): Planetary Science and Exploration
1989 - Taylor & Francis | Science and Global Security
Paula H. Krisko, James L. Foster,
Abstract The NASA/JSC sodium potassium (NaK) RORSAT coolant source and propagation model has been extended to 1 mm in diameter via a size distribution, which is an inverse power law ...
Tópico(s): Space Satellite Systems and Control
2007 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica
Gene Stansberry, Mark Matney, T. J. Settecerri, A. Bade,
... as the leaking sodium–potassium coolant from Russian RORSAT reactors. Debris from specific breakups have also been ...
Tópico(s): Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics
1997 - Elsevier BV | Acta Astronautica