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... Infobox Spacecraft Name = '''''AUSSAT A2'''''
Image = Image:AUSSAT_2_STS61B.jpg 200px Organization = AUSSAT Proprietary Ltd. (Australia) Major_Contractors = ... Webpage = Semimajor_Axis = Eccentricity = Inclination = Orbital_Period = Apoapsis = Periapsis = Orbits = Alternate Names = AUSSAT 2,OPTUS A2,16275 Experiments = http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/datasetSearch.do?spacecraft=AUSSAT%20A2 Here Nominal ...

... the Kiwi -B-4E and NRX-A2 reactors, and initial strides in the more advanced Phoebus reactor program, "The entire operations of both Kiwi -B-4E and NRX-A2 gave very close to the ...

... power test of a Nerva ''( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application )'' experimental reactor designated the NRX-A2 . The reactor was operated for six minutes, at powers ranging from 56% of full power ...

... mud before finally halting in 15-ft.-deep pond. ''(PI, NYT, 10/16/64, 48)'' NRX-A2 Nerva ''( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application )'' experimental reactor, run at full power Sept. 24 ...

... -flow experiments on a Nerva ( Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application ) experimental reactor, designated the NRX-A1, by the Aerojet-General and Westinghouse Electric Corporations. The experiments were designed to check the structural stability and flow dynamics of the NRX-A reactor under nonpower conditions. All test objectives were met. ''(SNPO)'' Asked for his opinion ...

... better-clad fuels, able to last much longer in a hot hydrogen environment. Indeed, the NRX-A6 ran for 62 minutes at full power, going through a million gallons of LH2 ... had 534 fuel elements, but 132 were duds, much more than the KIWI, Phoebus and NRX reactors. This is about 25% of the core, rather than a 7th. The reason was ...

... the surviving remnant of this so-called hypervelocity collision. "The filamentary appearance of P/2010 A2 is different from anything seen in Hubble images of normal comets, consistent with the action ... of ancient collisions that have shattered precursor bodies into fragments. The orbit of P/2010 A2 is consistent with membership in the Flora asteroid family, produced by collisional shattering more than ...

... found that the object is expanding very, very slowly. The peculiar object, dubbed P/2010 A2, was found cruising around the asteroid belt, a reservoir of millions of rocky bodies between ... ones, such as the one that produced P/2010 A2, are exceedingly faint. The two asteroids that make up P/2010 A2 were unknown before the collision because they were too faint ... -shaped structure has evolved. For images, movies, and more information about asteroid encounter P/2010 A2, visit: http://hubblesite.org/news/2010/34 and http://www.nasa.gov/hubble -end ...

... out to accomplish when we began the program in 1961." ''(Wash. Post, 6/18/66, A2; Waldron, NYT, 6/18/66, 10; Hines, Wash. Eve. Star, 6/20/66, A10)'' GEMINI ... we can do just about anything we want to do." ''(Wash. Post, 6/18/66, A2; NYT, 6/18/66. A10)'' U.S.S.R. made public its draft treaty for ... November 1966. ''(AP, NYT, 6/18/66, 10; A1, Wash. Eve. Star, 6/18/66, A2)'' Praising June 16 flight of Titan III-C booster which injected eight satellites into orbit ...

... Nuclear Propulsion Office, commented in NASA Hq. nuclear rocket background briefing that the Kiwi and NRX power reactor tests conducted during 1964 "constituted the largest advance in rocketry and in rocket ...

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