output ranged from a transient high of 650 We in the early part of the mission to a low of 527 We in the Sun after 43 days. The overall system efficiency was about 1.3%. In general, the system operated exactly as intended [22], On 16 May 1965, after 43 days of successful operation, the reactor was shut down by a spurious command caused by a failure of a voltage regulator on the Agena unregulated bus. There was no evidence of any malfunction in the SNAP-10A system. The FS-3 ground test twin to FS-4 successfully operated at full power for 10000 hours
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