File:SNAP-19C Mound Data Sheet.pdf

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The Data Sheet for the 7 SNAP-19C capsules made in early 1965 by Mound Laboratory that comprise the heat source for the SNAP-19C Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator built by the Martin Company for installation on top of Nanda Devi mountain in Nepal to power a Central Intelligence Agency monitoring station to collect telemetry from Chinese rocket launch tests. The sources were stored in a rock formation short of the summit in the face of a snowstorm and subsequently carried down the mountain onto a glacier by an avalanche and lost.

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Mound Science and Energy Museum digital archives

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1965

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Mound Laboratory under contract to the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission

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