Re: Radioactive Debris

Jeff Hunt (jhunt@eagle1.eaglenet.com)
Sun, 21 Jan 96 08:34:30 EST

Thanks for compiling that list from the satsit report.  Let's hope they stay 
in orbit for a long time as they are high level waste/cores.  The Russian's 
purposely ejected the cores them from their LEO surveillance satellites 
(mostly from their radar sea-surveillance sats) to a higher long term 
storage orbit.  My recollections is that a couple failed to go into a higher 
orbit and reentered.  The most well known was the one that entered the 
atmosphere over northern Canada many years ago.  The U.S. recently bought an 
engineering model, which I think included the fueled core, to see how we 
could make use of the design in our sats needing a large power supply.  
Haven't heard any more how we might make use of them but that doesn't mean 
we won't use the design.  Hopefully, others will contribute to this topic.
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