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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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