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SNAPSHOT
The first, and so far only, American flight of an operational nuclear space reactor. The SNAP-10A reactor produced 650 W of power from 1.3 kg of used uranium-235 fuel (embedded in uranium zirconium hydride) to run a small ion propulsion system.
| Launch date | Apr. 3, 1965 |
| Launch vehicle | Atlas-Agena D |
| Launch site | Vandenberg Air Force Base |
| Mass | 440 kg |
| Orbit | 1,270 × 1,314 km × 90° |
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• SATELLITES AND SPACE PROBES
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