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600 Seconds
600 Seconds (; 1987 to 1993) was an immensely popular TV news program that aired in the Soviet Union and briefly in post-Soviet Russia. It was a nightly broadcast from Leningrad TV with anchor Alexander Nevzorov.
The program of the "glasnost" period was distinguished by its fast tempo and the display of the countdown from 600 to zero. The anchor Nevzorov used the broadcast in order to criticize corrupt Soviet officials and promote preserving the Soviet Union (in the Baltic States, he is known as a
having to use nuclear technology for power when coupled with solar panels. A 1998 study for SEP for a human mission suggest that a human-sized spacecraft would need 600 to 800 kilowatts of electrical power coupled with ion engines with a specific impulse of 2000 to 2500 seconds.
Mission examples.
- BepiColombo mission to Mercury (launched)
- Dawn asteroids mission (launched)
- Deep Space 1 asteroid and comet mission (launched)
- Hayabusa asteroid mission (launched)
- PSLV-C45 EMISAT Mission