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A végén említett dologra már volt példa, mert volt sikertelen RORSAT indítás.
* RORSAT launch failure, April 25, 1973. Launch failed and the reactor fell into the Pacific Ocean north of Japan. Radiation was detected by U.S. air sampling airplanes.
* Cosmos 954. The satellite failed to boost into a nuclear-safe storage orbit as planned. Nuclear materials re-entered the Earth's atmosphere on January 24, 1978 and left a trail of radioactive pollution over an estimated 124,000 km² of Canada's Northwest Territories.
* Cosmos 1402. Failed to boost into storage orbit in late 1982. The reactor core was separated from the remainder of the spacecraft and was the last piece of the satellite to return to Earth, landing in the South Atlantic Ocean on February 7, 1983.
* Cosmos 1900. The primary system failed to eject the reactor core into storage orbit, but the backup managed to push it into an orbit 80km (50 miles) below its intended altitude.
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