27-01-2008, 11:39 PM
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Southern Amateur
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Sydney
Posts: 283
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Quote:
Originally Posted by citivolus
A little update, the Cosmos series saw 33 nuclear reactor powered satellites put into orbit. Who knows how many others there have been...
The micro reactor was used to power the high power radar on these satellites.
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Ah! Thanks for posting this... I didn't really know what they were using such power for the Russian satellites... Makes perfect sense now! 
Andrew
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