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... .S. fleet," the Washington Post said. The Washington Star cited the January 1978 breakup of Cosmos 954 that scattered radioactive debris across a remote region of Canada; one expert suggested that ... , U.S. officials were "virtually certain" that the new satellite was, like those in the Cosmos 954 series, powered by radioactive thermal generators creating heat that turned turbines to produce electricity ...

... crash somewhere on Earth before the end of January. The Soviet Union's Cosmos 1402, like an earlier Cosmos that crashed in northern Canada in January 1978 and caused minor radiation contamination ... provide electrical power for its radar. The Soviet Union confirmed loss of its control over Cosmos 1402, launched to observe U.S. naval operations from an orbit of 64.9° inclination ... craft should come down in a densely populated area. The foreign press had warned that Cosmos 1402 had "separated into individual fragments on a command from earth" The nuclear power unit ...

... certain that the spacecraft had attained orbit. The spacecraft's sponsors, the Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios, are U.S. nonprofit organizations that seek to increase the public's knowledge of ... spacecraft's large, triangular, mirror-like “solar sails” were to propel the engineless, fuel-free Cosmos 1. (John Antczak for Associated Press, “Solar Sail Spacecraft Launched from Russian Submarine,” 21 June ...

... -26.pdf Space News for this day. (2MB PDF) U.S.S.R. launched Cosmos CCXIX-10th Cosmos in April and 9th spacecraft in 12 days-into orbit with 1,747-km ... 1968 might for the first time since 1957 exceed U.S. spacecraft orbited. Launches in Cosmos series, which in­cluded a variety of spacecraft, had continued to accelerate, he noted, with 34 Cosmos launches in 1966 and 59 in 1967. Satellite reentered March 2, 1969. ''(Cohn, W Post ...

... U.S. under relatively continuous surveillance with photo reconnaissance satellites launched as part of the Cosmos program, said Edward H. Kolcum in an article in Aviation Week and Space Technology . In ... that also permits the payload to sweep over the entire continental United States." The other Cosmos satellites, orbited at 49° inclination, had remained in orbit until they decayed naturally. They were ...

... , the problem of going to the moon had been studied with the Cosmos series of spacecraft, He said COSMOS III and COSMOS IV had studied solor plasma, its energy and location in earth ... than 50 million measurements; 20 million more had been stored in a data-storage system, COSMOS XLI had investigated charged particles at 40,000 mi, altitude. The Elektron series, he continued ...

... NASA listed them in its periodic satellite summary. The summary also showed that unmanned COSMOS LXI , COSMOS LXII , and COSMOS LXIII , launched by U.S.S.R. March 15 with a single launch vehicle, had become 26 satellites or pieces of satellites, COSMOS LXVI , and two companions, launched May 7, had fallen out of orbit. ''( Goddard Space Flight ...

... Release 65392)'' U.S.S.R. successfully launched COSMOS CII and COSMOS CIII unmanned satellites to continue space investigations, Tass announced. Orbital parameters for COSMOS CII: apogee, 172 mi. (278 km.) ; perigee, 135 mi. (218 km.) ; period, 89,24 min.; inclination, 65°, COSMOS CIII had been placed in near-circular orbit at 372-mi. (600-km.) altitude, with ...

... horizontal tail loads. ''( X-15 Proj Off)'' U.S.S.R. successfully launched two Cosmos satellites : Cosmos CLIX entered orbit with 60,600-km (37,655-mi) apogee, 380-km (236-mi) perigee, 19-hr 33-min period, and 51° inclination; Cosmos CLX entered orbit with 205-km (127 mi) apogee, 142-km (88-mi) perigee, and 49.6° inclination. Equipment on both satellites functioned normally. Cosmos CLX reentered May 18. ''(UPI, W Star, 5/18/67, C18; Goddard Space Flight Center ...

... sequence was completed. ''(NASA Rpt SRL)'' U.S.S.R. successfully launched two Cosmos satellites with two boosters: Cosmos CLXXXV entered orbit with 888-km (552-mi) apogee, 522-km (324-mi) perigee, 98.7-min period, and 64.1° inclination. Cosmos CLXXXVI, launched into orbit with 235-km (146-mi) apogee, 209 km (130-mi) perigee, 88.7-min period, and 51.7° inclination, later docked with Cosmos CLXXXVIII. Both spacecraft performed satisfactorily. ''(W Post, 10/29/67, A16; SBD, 10/30/67 ...

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