Radioisotope generators—inside the 'nuclear batteries' that power faraway spacecraft
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The 1960s Tech Keeping NASA’s Voyager Probes Alive for Nearly 50 Years
Solar panels are next to useless in the outer solar system, so NASA’s Voyager probes rely on nuclear batteries—technology ...
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Nuclear-powered spacecraft with 11,000-pound payload planned by US space firms
The goal of enabling extended deep-space exploration is driving NASA, space agencies, and private players to explore nuclear ...
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Pulsar unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept
The Sunbird concept is for the fusion-powered ‘tugs’ to be permanently based in space, able to dock with spacecraft and ...
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Pulsar Fusion unveils nuclear fusion rocket concept for space travel
The Sunbird nuclear fusion rocket concept has the potential to more than halve the time to travel to Mars and cut travel time ...
War in Space is coming. Satellites will be armed with lasers and the MOON will be invaded. Sound far-fetched? The world's superpowers are already preparing for this …
It's official - space is a war-fighting domain. Who says so? The British, the Americans, Nato and, among many other nations, ...
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Inside radioisotope generators, the ‘nuclear batteries’ that power faraway spacecraft
RTGs are essentially nuclear-powered batteries ... the power of RTGs quite like the Voyager missions. NASA launched the twin spacecraft Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 in 1977 to take a tour of the ...
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This Week In Space podcast: Episode 152 — Atomic Rockets II: Nuclear Electric Boogaloo
They discuss the history, current developments, and future potential of nuclear electric and ... including Space 2.0, Innovation the NASA Way, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar ...