So how do engineers power missions in the outer reaches of our solar system and beyond? The solution is technology developed in the 1960s based on scientific principles discovered two centuries ago: ...
Spacecraft near the Earth use large solar panels to harness the Sun for the electricity needed to run their communications systems ... ago: radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs.
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