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... satellite were being transmitted successfully with electricity from the Snap-9A isotopic power generator. Designed to provide 25 watts of direct electrical current, the Snap-9A was the same type of gen­erator as that providing power for a satellite launched from Van­denberg earlier this year. The two Snap-9A 's are designed for ...

... Release 72-50)'' Atomic Energy Commission published Global Inventory and Distribution of Pu-238 from SNAP-9A, report on study of plutonium accidently injected into stratosphere when U.S. Navy Transit satellite ... fallout of plutonium isotope over that usually injected into atmosphere by atmospheric nuclear weapon tests. SNAP-9A nuclear generator, designed to convert heat from Pu-238 into electrical energy, had burned up ...

... Vandenberg AFB . Satellite was first to be completely powered by nuclear generator, a 27-lb. Snap-9A ( Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power )' which will produce 25 watts of power continuously for five ...

... this time, however. ''(M&R, 5/18/64, 17)'' AEC announced a satellite carrying small Snap-9A atomic generator had been launched on Thor-Able-Star booster from Vandenberg AFB last April ...

... USN satellite carrying it had failed to orbit (see May 11). Onboard as fuel for Snap-9A generator, the plutonium apparently vaporized on re-entry into earth's atmosphere and now was ...

... . of causing radiation hazards by putting atomic generators aboard spacecraft. The generator involved was a Snap-9A aboard a Navy navigation satellite launched from Vandenberg AFB , Calif. ''(UPI, Phil. Eve. Bull., 1 ...

... Science and Astronautics Committee at its request. AEC displayed its latest radioisotope electrical power generator, Snap-9A , in exhibit at Whittier (Calif.) Civic Center. Designed to produce 20 watts of electrical power ...

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