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Failed 1970s Venus Probe Could Crash to Earth This Year
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Posted on 02/25/2019 7:38:40 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: Army Air Corps
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02/25/2019 10:06:42 AM PST
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MHGinTN
(A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
To: BenLurkin
Sounds like a good target for testing ASAT weapons.
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02/25/2019 10:36:26 AM PST
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JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Army Air Corps
The US Air Force Museum in Dayton once hosted an exhibit of Soviet space items. Fascinating stuff. But I seem to recall they used onboard reactors more often than not.
To: Buckeye McFrog
But I seem to recall they used onboard reactors more often than not.
Not so much for their planetary probes. On the other hand, their RORSAT programme featured nuclear-powered spy satellites. This programme lanched 33 nuke-powered satellites. Thirty-one of those satellites used the BES-5 reactor, while two of them used the larger liquid-cooled TOPAZ reactor. Out of those 33 launches, there were five failures - three of these failures resulted in re-entry of the reactor core.
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02/25/2019 12:22:14 PM PST
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Also, bear in mind, that the remaining cores are just parked in higher orbits that will decay.
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02/25/2019 12:37:19 PM PST
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Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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