... A nasty dispute between the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) and the space-science community was narrowly averted early this year when SDI officials backed down on a planned launch of a satellite with a Russian-built nuclear reactor on board. ... Early Soviet space reactors orbited for two to three months, and two Soviet Topaz 1 experiments, one for six and one 12 months, created radiation belts that disrupted the operation of scientific satellites. ...

Lipunov V.M, Kornilov V.G., Gorbovskoy E.S., Tiurina N.V., Balanutsa P.V., Kuznetsov A.S., Kuvshinov D.A., Vladimirov V.V ., Vlasenko D.M., Gorbunov I., Chazov V.V ., Popova E.V. ( Lomonosov Moscow State University , Sternberg Astronomical Institute , Physics Department), Rebolo Lopez R., Serra Ricart M., Israelian G., Lodieu N. (The Instituto de Astrofisica of Canarias), Buckley D.A.H., Potter S.B., Knyazev A. (The South African Astronomical ...

Initial orbit determinations of NEO-2005 with Pulkovo AMP-method O.P. Bykov Central Astronomical Observatory of RAS, Russia, 196140, Saint-Petersburg, Pulkovskoye shosse 65/1 Abstract Pulkovo Apparent Motion Parameters Method (the AMP-method) was proposed by prof. A.A.Kiselev and developed by his colleagues for initial orbit determinations of Artificial Earth Satellites, Space Debris, Asteroids, and Comets on the base of very short observational arc. ... Table 4 Apparent Motion Parameters for 2005 EE. ...