In one of the most spectacular accidents of the space age a five-ton Soviet surveillance satellite with an atomic power-plant abroad burned up in the atmosphere over the remote reaches of Canada's Northwest territory on January 4, 1978.'The 110 pounds of uraniumDembling, Paul G...
On 24 January 1978, COSMOS 954, a Soviet nuclear-powered surveillance satellite, crashed in theNorthwest Territories. The crash scattered a large amount of radioactivity over a 124,000 square kilometre area inCanada's north, stretching southward from Great Slave Lake into northernAlbertaandSaskatchewan...
The 1978 crash of the U.S.S.R.'s Cosmos 954 satellite has shed some light on the normative expectations of states concerning satellite accidents.doi:10.1515/9781400859481.68CohenAlexander FYale J.intl LA lexander Cohen. Cosmos 954 and the international law of satellite accidents[ J ]. Yale...
The application of airborne gamma-ray spectroscopy in the search ofr radioactive debris from the Russian satellite Cosmos 954Bristow, Q
On January 24th, 1978, COSMOS-954, a nuclear powered Russian satellite, disintegrated on reentering the earth's atmosphere and scattered radioactive debris over a large area of Canada's Northwest Territories. The U.S. Government offered the Canadian Government the assistance of their Department of...